Glover v. Shiflett Transport Services, Inc.

JjBYRNES, Judge.

This case arises from a collision between an automobile driven by the plaintiff, Sandra Glover, and an eighteen-wheel tractor-trailer driven by the defendant, Alton Lee Burnett, on June 20, 1989, at Louisiana Avenue and Tchoupitoulas Street, in New Orleans. The truck was leased by Burnett’s employer, Shi-flett Transport Services, Inc., from Ryder Truck Rentals, Inc. Plaintiffs original petition asserted that the negligence of the defendant, Alton Burnett, was the sole cause of the collision. She alleged that Burnett was acting in the course and scope of his employment at the…