Waddell v. Gravois

McBRIDE, Judge.

On the misty and rainy morning of December 22, 1962, at 6:15 o’clock (before daybreak) an automobile owned and driven by Cleo Waddell in which his wife, Kathleen, and his brother, Kenneth, were passengers, traveling northward on La. Highway 20 near the Town of Vacherie, Parish of St. James, ran into the rear of a trailer loaded with sugar cane which was attached to and was being pulled by a truck in the same direction. The suit brought by said occupants of the Waddell car for damages they allegedly sustained in the accident against the owner of the truck-trailer (which we shall…