Jones v. Burke

DORÉ, Judge.

These two cases, arising out of the same accident, were consolidated for trial in the lower court and consolidated in this court on appeal. The accident occurred on the night of October 7, 1949, in Beauregard Parish, at a point some -one and one-half or two miles north of the community of Longville, on U. S. Highway 171. One of the plaintiffs, Rev. George I. Jones, a Baptist minister, had left his home near De-Ridder early on the morning of October 7th and had .driven to New Orleans in order to pick up Albert G. Palmer, a minister of another faith, and Palmer’s small daughter who…