WESTERN PRODUCTION COMPANY v. YARBROUGH

No. 16001.

234 F.2d 889 (1956)

WESTERN PRODUCTION COMPANY, Appellant, v. Nell Rose Holman YARBROUGH et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Welton P. Mouton, Lafayette, La., Mouton, Champagne & Colomb, Lafayette, La., for appellant.

John Wood Anthony, Bogalusa, La., Talley, Anthony & Johnson, James D. Johnson, Jr., Bogalusa, La., for appellees.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding the widow and her two minor children a total recovery of $40,000.00 for the death of the husband and father, Edward Yarbrough, as a result of the alleged negligence of appellant's truck driver in an automobile-truck collision which occurred about 9:15 P.M. on January 15, 1954, on U. S. Highway No. 71, approximately ten miles south of Bunkie in the Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana...

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