Norman v. State

McCALEB, Justice.. Plaintiff, James G. Norman, suffered painful and serious personal injuries on the *908morning of September 21, 1948, when a wooden bridge spanning Bayou Bartholomew in Morehouse Parish collapsed under the heavily loaded truck he was driving. Plaintiff was employed as a truck driver for Dowell, Inc., which is engaged in the business of acidizing oil and gas wells, and, at the time of the accident, he was driving the middle truck in a convoy of three which had been sent from Sheveport with hydrochloric acid for the purpose of servicing certain gas wells of the Southern Carbon…