Motors Insurance Corp. v. Boling

MILLER, Judge.

The trial court awarded property damages to plaintiffs Benny Lee Mallory and his insurer Motors Insurance Corporation on the finding that Mallory’s northbound vehicle sideswiped defendant John L. Bol-ing’s southbound pickup truck when Boling jackknifed his boat trailer and suddenly entered plaintiff’s traffic lane. Defendant’s reconventional demand was dismissed. Defendant appealed both findings and we affirm.

Defendant contends that the accident occurred in defendant’s southbound lane after defendant had stopped. Defendant showed that a northbound wrecker took the shoulder to…