Gunter v. State, Department of Highways

ELLIS, Judge.

This suit arose out of an accident which occurred on the afternoon of May 15, 1957 whereby Mrs. Marguerite Brown Gunter, wife of plaintiff, when driving an automobile on the free ferry owned and operated by the Department of Highways, State of Louisiana, somehow ran into the chain barrier which gave way and her car continued the length of the disembarking ramp and thence into the river and she and her guest passenger were drowned.

From the record, it appears that plaintiff and his wife were the owners of a 1954 Chevrolet Sedan with standard gear shift; that two days prior to the…