McIntosh v. Lewis

GULOTTA, Judge.

Defendants, Richard Lewis and Continental National American Insurance Company, appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiffs, George McIntosh (driver of the car) $2,500 in general damages, and his brother Joe McIntosh (owner of the car) $1,500 in automobile damages as a result of an accident which occurred on July 5, 1970, at 3 :40 a. m. on Hwy. 1, a two-lane blacktop road in Grand Isle, Louisiana. The McIntosh and Lewis vehicles were traveling in the same direction. The Lewis vehicle was some distance behind the McIntosh vehicle.

Plaintiffs maintain that just as McIntosh started…