Boudreau v. Louviere

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for damages against the owner of a mule, predicated on article 2321 of the Revised Civil Code, under which the owner of an animal is made answerable for the damages caused by it.

The plaintiff, Errol Boudreau, alleges in his petition that on the night of September 27, 1936, at about 8.30 o’clock, accompanied by J. A. Bernard and Herman Savoie, two companions, he was driving his 1935 model Ford coupé, from Sunset to Lafayette, La. He avers that he was operating and driving his car on the paved highway in a prudent, careful, and skillful manner, and 'at a rate…