Monroe Hardware Co. v. Monroe Transfer & Warehouse Co.

DREW, Judge.

Plaintiff sued for damages to its automobile caused by a collision with the truck owned by defendant and at the time being operated by its employee in the scope and course of his employment. It prayed for judgment in solido against the owner of the truck and its insurer.

The collision occurred in the early afternoon of June 9, 1934, at a point about ten miles north of Monroe, La., on the paved highway leading from Monroe to Sterlington and Bastrop. The truck of the defendant had attached thereto a trailer, the truck and trailer being 28 feet in length. The body of the trailer was…