Gardiner v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

Plaintiff is a colored man about sixty years of age, and he was injured in a collision between a car driven by Wiley Aucoin and a car owned by Mrs. Ovide Lahaye and being driven by her son, Felix Lahaye. Plaintiff was working as a cook at the Moonlight Inn, and Aucoin was a bartender at this Inn. The latter was taking plaintiff home in his car after the Inn had closed just after midnight on July 21, 1941.

Aucoin with plaintiff in his car as his guest was proceeding east on Vine Street in Opelousas, and the young man, Lahaye, was proceeding north on Union Street. Vine Street is 26.7 feet wide…