Laughlin v. Allstate Insurance

FRUGÉ, Judge.

This suit for personal injuries was brought by Eddie Laughlin, a guest passenger in an automobile involved in a near head-on collision. Two other suits, that of James Carroll Johnson v. Allstate Insurance Company, and Allstate Insurance Company et al. v. James Carroll Johnson, arose out of the same accident and were consolidated for purposes of trial but are not involved in this appeal.

After trial on the merits judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff against James Carroll Johnson, the driver of the car in which plaintiff was a guest passenger. Laughlin’s suit against the…