Standard Acc. Ins. Co. v. Rivet

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appealing from a judgment on a jury verdict, appellant assigns as error the denial of its motion for a direction. The suit was for damages from the death of plaintiff’s son in a collision between an automobile, in which he was riding as a guest, and a truck owned by Frank de Latour, appellant’s named insured. The action, under the authority of Act No. 55 of the General Assembly of'Louisiana of 1930 was brought directly against appellant, the insurance carrier. It was pitched on two grounds. One was that, at the time of the collision the truck was being operated by a…