Broussard v. Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. of Newark

ELLIS, Judge.

On a foggy Sunday morning at approximately 4:10 or 4:15 A.M. on October 21, 1951, the plaintiff was operating his Ford sedan in a, westerly direction along Highway 43 at a speed of “between 25 and 35 miles an hour,” in his proper lane of travel when he collided head on with a truck being operated by defendant D. V. Guidry, whom the testimony shows was in an intoxicated condition at the time and immediately afterward. Guidry was traveling in the opposite direction but in the plaintiff’s lane of travel.

Shortly after this collision, the plaintiff’s vehicle was struck from the rear…