Pan-American Casualty Company v. Edwin L. Reed, Jr., and Mary Ann Bernard Reed

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict against defendant insurance company sued under the Louisiana Direct Action Statute LSA-R.S. 22:655 by plaintiff passengers, husband and wife, for injuries suffered by them and for the death of their prematurely born child, in an accident caused by the negligence of the driver of the car, defendant’s assured, the mother and mother-in-law of the plaintiffs. The three questions at issue here are: (1) whether plaintiffs sustained the burden of proof that the infant’s death was proximately due to the accident; (2) whether it…