Noland v. Liberty Mutual Ins.

It is with some hesitation that I disagree with the carefully considered and well written majority opinion.

We have denied recovery herein to a motorist who was completely free of negligence, struck while proceeding in his own proper lane of traffic by a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which suddenly swerved from its proper lane into plaintiff's path. Under similar circumstances we recently denied recovery to a driver and two passengers struck in their own lane of traffic by an oncoming car which swerved from its lane into theirs, Mershon v. Cutrer, La.App., 85 So.2d 639, 645…