Morales v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corporation

The plaintiff was injured a short distance south of Independence, in Tangipahoa Parish, when she fell from an ambulance while accompanying her sick daughter from the State Hospital at Independence to a hospital in New Orleans. The ambulance from which she fell or was thrown belonged to the State, or the Department of Public Welfare, and was operated for the use of the Florida Parishes Hospital in transporting charity patients treated at that institution. At the time of the accident, this ambulance was being driven by Raymond Colwet, a regular employee of the Hospital, whose duties were to…