Lapuyade v. Pacific Employers Ins. Co.

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to recover for the alleged wrongful death of plaintiffs’ infant son, 14 months old, which occurred when run over by a truck operated by an employee of defendant’s assured near the intersection of Canal and North Rampart Streets, one of the busiest intersections in the city of New Orleans.1

There was a verdict below for plaintiffs, which the trial judge set aside and entered judgment non-obstante veredicto for the defendant on its motion for directed verdict which had previously been taken under advisement. This appeal is from that judgment.

*496The accident…