Dew v. Massachusetts Bonding Ins. Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

The plaintiffs herein, Elizabeth Lockett, wife of Edward Dew, and the said Edward Dew, have instituted this suit to recover damages in the total sum of $14,060 for the death of their daughter, Maggie Dew, a young colored woman, twenty-three years old, who sustained injuries in an automobile accident near Salt Bayou, about 5 miles south of Slidell in the parish of St. Tammany, at about five o’clock of the afternoon of August 27, 1936, and from which she died on September 1, following.

There were three motor vehicles alleged to have been involved in the accident. One, a truck…