Welsch v. Standard Oil Co.

OPINION.

CLAIBORNE, J.

This is a damage suit resulting from a collision of automobiles.

The plaintiff alleged that on May 11, 1923, at 5:30 p. m., he alighted from a street car at the intersection of Napoleon Avenue and Magnolia Street; that a truck owned by the defendant company, while crossing Napoleon Avenue at said intersection going down town, negligently ran into a Packard automobile running on Napoleon towards Washington Avenue, causing said automobile to swerve in the direction of the street car, which had stopped to permit the plaintiff to alight, causing said automobile to strike…