Jacobs v. Kimbrough

PRICE, Judge.

The primary question on this appeal is whether the trial court was in error in finding that the driver of the overtaking vehicle was solely at fault in causing the accident and failing to find contributory negligence on the part of the left-turning motorist. A second issue concerns whether the damages awarded were excessive.

*1274The accident in question happened at 6:15 a. m. on July 18, 1977, near the southerly corporate limits of Stonewell in DeSoto Parish on Highway 171. For some distance, both north and south of the accident site, Highway 171 was a two-lane highway which was…