Brocato v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.

AYRES, Judge.

This is an action in tort wherein plaintiff, Rose Ann Brocato, seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained in an automobile accident which occurred on July 20, 1970, on U. S. Highway 80 about 1.3 miles east of the corporate limits of Bossier City. Made defendants are Mrs. Araina Sue Knight Shipp, with whom she was riding as a guest passenger, and Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, insurer of the automobile driven by plaintiff’s host.

Negligence charged to Mrs. Shipp consists of an attempt to pass a large truck which allegedly caused her to lose all visibility and,…