Geddes & Moss Undertaking & Embalming Co. v. Simkins

OPINION

BELL, J.

This is a damage suit resulting from a collision of defendant’s truck with plaintiff’s automobile. The accident occurred at noon on Erato street, between Dryades and Baronne streets, in the city of New Orleans.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant’s driver, negligently and without warning of any kind, suddenly backed a truck out of the building belonging to the Harris Ice Cream Company, and thus droye the truck into Erato street, on the upper side of which plaintiff’s automobile was traveling in the direction of the river, from Dryades street toward Baronne street.

The damages to…