Elliott v. Coreil

LE BLANC, Judge.

Plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident which occurred just outside of the corporate limits of the town of Yille Platte, on the paved highway leading to Oakdale, on September 9, 1933. He was in an automobile being driven by one Jessie Ray. The car was a Pord roadster with an improvised box seat in the rear which is referred to in the testimony as a “turtle shell seat.” With them were three other young men in the car. The driver and two of the others occupied the front seat, and plaintiff and Rufus Smith, owner of the ear, were seated on the box seat in the rear. They…