Dowell, Inc. v. Bayou State Oil Corporation

This is an action for the recovery of damages to an automobile belonging to plaintiff corporation and driven by one of its employees, resulting from a collision with a truck and trailer unit owned by defendant and driven by an employee. After trial there was judgment in favor of defendant, rejecting plaintiff's demands, from which judgment plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

At or about 9:30 p.m. on July 19, 1946, at a point on Highway 71, about five miles north of the City of Shreveport, a 1942 model Chevrolet Coach belonging to plaintiff and being driven by one W. C. Roberts, an employee, in a…