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BOOTH v. COLUMBIA CASUALTY COMPANY

No. 42135.

80 So.2d 869 (1955)

227 La. 932

Albert J. BOOTH v. COLUMBIA CASUALTY COMPANY. In re Albert J. Booth, Applying for Writs of Certiorari, and Review to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. A. McGovern, III, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee-applicant.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Dreux & Poitevent and Michael J. Molony, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.

PONDER, Justice.

We granted a review in this case because we thought the Court of Appeal erred in holding the plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence.

In this suit the plaintiff seeks to recover from Columbia Casualty Company, the liability insurer of the City of New Orleans, the damages arising out of a collision between the plaintiff's automobile and a garbage truck, owned by the Sanitation Department of the City of New Orleans, which was operated by...

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