Manno v. W. H. Patterson Co.

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a tort action before'us on an appeal taken by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Lower Court which dismissed her suit. The action is one for damages sustained when plaintiff alighted from the automobile in which she had been riding after it had become stuck and slipped in the mud fracturing her left hip. Joined as defendants were W. H. Patterson and Company, Inc., a corporation which had contracted with the State of Louisiana to impro've the highway in the area, and its liability insurer, together with H. L. Allen & Sons, and their liability insurer, who had entered…