American Automobile Insurance Company v. Mary M. Wainwright, Ind. Etc., and Motors Insurance Corporation, Intervenor

This appeal is from a judgment on a jury verdict allowing recovery for injuries sustained in an automobile collision in Alexandria, Louisiana. The accident occurred on an east-west expressway, the double one-way lanes of which were separated by a wide dished-out, grass-covered neutral strip. The defendant was driving in an easterly direction. A truck came out onto the paved highway from a lane on her right. When for the first time she discovered the truck then almost in her path and either struck the truck or feared that she might, the defendant swerved her car to the left. It took out…