Davenport v. Giles

|/The plaintiffs 13-year-old daughter and her two friends stood up in the bed of the pickup truck operated by the defendant as they were preparing to leave the parking lot of the Tinseltown movie theater in Shreveport. When the defendant accelerated the vehicle forward, plaintiffs daughter fell out of the truck and sustained injuries. After a bench trial, the court found that the defendant “improvidently accelerated” the vehicle, causing plaintiffs daughter to suffer a hematoma or “bump on the head.” He awarded the plaintiff $3,000 in general damages and $6,554.10 for the cost of most, but…