Legal Opinion
Joe W. Collins, as Committee for Travious Riddle Collins, Incompetent v. American Automobile Insurance Company of St. Louis, Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 14, 1956No. 141, Docket 23658PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge.
This is an action by the plaintiff, Collins, as a committee for Travious Riddle Collins, an incompetent, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by his ward when struck on a street in New Orleans, La., by an automobile owned and operated by one Edward Duffy. The complaint further alleges that at the time of the accident Duffy was insured by a policy of liability insurance issued by the defendant and that this direct action against the insurer (to which Duffy is not a party) is based upon La.Rev.Stat. 22:655 (1950). 1
This action was instituted in the court below…
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