Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance v. Minor

McBRIDE, Judge.

This is a suit to recover damages aggregating $2,300.00 allegedly sustained by a Pontiac automobile when it ran into a 'GMC stake-body truck on the afternoon of August 6, 1962, while both vehicles were traveling westward (in a direction away from New Orleans) on U. S. Highway 61 in the Parish of St. Charles near the town ■of La Place. Said highway is the main traffic artery between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, which at the locus in quo, ■consists of two concrete roadways (each ■containing two lanes) separated by a neutral ground four or five feet wide, in which there are at…