Odom v. Long

Plaintiff sued to recover damages to his automobile caused from a collision thereof with a light trailer attached to and drawn by the automobile of defendant. Each owner was operating his own car. The accident occurred on Highway No. 80, east of the City of Shreveport, at about 9:30 p.m., June 30, 1945. Both vehicles were traveling easterly. Plaintiff's car ran violently into the trailer's rear end.

The acts of negligence charged to defendant, alleged to have been the proximate cause of the accident, are these:

1. Stopping his car on the highway; and,

2. Absence of taillights from the rear of…