Deshotel v. Travelers Indemnity Company

BARHAM, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to review a judgment of the Third Circuit Court of Appeal. 231 So.2d 448. Subsequently we granted certiorari in the case of Laddie J. Bennett v. Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., to review a judgment of the First Circuit Court of Appeal involving the same issue. 238 So. 2d 206. We consolidated the two cases for argument. See Bennett v. Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., this day decided, 257 La. 575, 243 So.2d 262.

The precise question presented in each of these cases is whether a father injured through his minor…