Brown v. Waller

Plaintiff instituted this suit to recover for personal injuries he alleged he received when he fell from the top of a truck on which he had been invited to ride by defendant, M.H. Waller. Plaintiff was a member of a CCC Camp located near the Town of Ringgold, Louisiana. On the day of the accident he was standing on the side of the road just east of Bossier City.

M.H. Waller is the owner and operator of a farm near the Town of Ringgold and was proceeding from Shreveport, Louisiana, to his farm in a truck loaded with hay. When he was near to plaintiff, plaintiff gave the "hitch-hiker's" sign…