Miller v. Thomas

SANDERS, Justice.

We granted a writ in this damage suit to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal reducing the jury award for personal injuries by more than one-half. We reinstate the jury award.

During the afternoon of December 9, 1965, Deborah Ann Miller, plaintiff’s seventeen-year-old daughter, was a guest passenger in an automobile driven by Anita Labry and owned by her father. While traveling south on the Airline Highway (U. S. .Highway 61) near Kenner, the automobile collided with a large truck owned by Hoyt Manufacturing Company and operated by Lionel J. Thomas, its employee. At the…