Crysel v. Gifford-Hill & Co.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

These consolidated suits were instituted by Gaffney Crysel and J. E. Hardy, respectively. Crysel, accompanied by Hardy and two other men, while driving his Ford car southerly on the concrete highway near the Village of Lena in Rapides parish, before daylight, November 11, 1931, collided with a truck, going north, alleged to have been owned by defendant and operated by its agent or employee, who, at the time, it is also alleged, was on a mission for the employer and acting within the scope of his employment. Both plaintiffs were seriously injured. They sue for damages for…