Eisele v. Beaudoin

Jim Johnson, Justice.

This appeal principally involves the dead man’s, statute.

On October 14, 1962, McKinley Beandoin, a Negro native of south Louisiana, his wife, appellee Marie Beaudoin, their daughter, appellee Beulah LaCaze, and her infant son Billy, were driving through Arkansas on their way home to Chicago after a family visit in Louisiana. McKinley Beaudoin and his daughter had alternated driving. Beaudoin was driving north on U. S. Highway 167 in the rain. About eight miles north of Sheridan the automobile left the highway on the righthand side, went down an embankment, the left side…