Causey v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

This is indeed a most remarkable case. Plaintiff, a woman 53 years of age, a passenger in a taxicab which was backed into by another car which was in front of it while the cab was standing stationary, claims to have been so seriously injured that she is now a hopeless and permanent invalid, must remain constantly in bed, and suffers torture at all times. Yet the contact between the two vehicles was unquestionably of extremely slight force, in fact so slight that one of the passengers in the car which backed into the cab did not even realize that there had been contact between…