Baptiste v. Mateu

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This suit grows out of an accident which occurred at the intersection of Dauphine street and Esplanade avenue on August 13, 1931, when Revistes Baptiste, an aged negro, was run into by the automobile of defendant, driven by herself, causing a fracture of plaintiff’s right leg, disabling him for a period of about two months.

The evidence in the case presents the usual conflict, but, adopting the conclusions of the trial judge upon the facts involved, we find that Baptiste was under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident, and with his head down and without looking…