Braud v. Vinet

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries brought by a father for the use and benefit of his minor son, Clarence Braud, Jr., eleven years of age, who sustained a fracture of the right humerus as a result of the overturning of an automobile in which he was riding on the morning of August 11, 1939. The suit is directed against Paul Zeringue who was driving the car and also against John Vinet, Jr., the owner of the car and by whom Zeringue was employed. The demand as originally made was for the sum of $5,000 but in a supplemental petition the father alleged that he had been obliged to…