Teche Lines, Inc. v. Bateman

The plaintiff, Mrs. Velma Bateman, brought suit against the Teche Lines, Incorporated, for an injury to her eye occasioned by a piece of rock or gravel being thrown violently through the windshield of the car in which she was riding and striking her in the eye and injuring the cornea so as to practically cause the loss of sight in said eye, except to distinguish between light and darkness. The injury also prevents the dilation and contraction of the pupil of the eye, resulting in an excess of light into the eyre, which causes her suffering and pain.

It appears that the plaintiff and her…