DOWDEN v. STATE, DEPT. OF HWYS.

No. 8319.

81 So.2d 48 (1955)

F. I. DOWDEN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the Department of Highways, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Crosby Pegues, Jr., D. Ross Banister, Philip K. Jones, Baton Rouge, Francis X. Vinet, New Orleans, Louis S. Quinn, Joseph A. Loret, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Pickett & Pickett, Many, for appellee.


AYRES, Judge.

This is one of seven separate actions in tort instituted by as many individuals against the State of Louisiana through the Department of Highways as the result of two separate accidents occurring on Highway No. 173, a state graveled highway, near the community known as Old Peason, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, at about 9:00 o'clock P.M. and 12:00 o'clock midnight, respectively, Saturday, December 23, 1944. Each of the seven plaintiffs alleged that the accidents...

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