Cassar v. Mansfield Lumber Co.

This is a suit for $19,046.83 damages which plaintiffs alleged to be due as a result of an automobile accident on the road four and one-half miles south of Leesville, Louisiana on October 4, 1945. The petition alleged that the driver of defendant's truck made, without warning, a sudden and abrupt left turn in an attempt to leave the highway and get on a side road. At that moment plaintiffs were in the process of going around and passing defendant's truck and when the sudden left turn was made, the left front wheel, bumper and fender of defendant's truck struck the entire right side of…