Duet v. Tramontana

This suit for damages for personal injuries results from a very serious automobile accident in which two persons were killed, two others — one of them the plaintiff in this suit — sustained serious injuries and a Ford automobile was practically demolished, and a large truck was damaged. The time was about 1 o'clock in the very early morning of January 1, 1943, and the scene was about a mile west of Paradis, La., on U.S. Highway No. 90, which runs from New Orleans through Houma, La., towards the west. The truck, owned and operated by Rosario Tramontana, was standing at the time on, or…