HUGHES v. GREAT AMERICAN INDEMNITY COMPANY

No. 16026.

236 F.2d 71 (1956)

William H. HUGHES et al., Appellants, v. GREAT AMERICAN INDEMNITY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. J. Fleniken, Brown & Fleniken, Shreveport, La., for appellants.

Donald L. Baker, Shreveport, La., Kent Breard, Monroe, La., Morgan, Baker & Skeels, Shreveport, La., McHenry, Lamkin, Snellings & Breard, Monroe, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the District Court rendered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of appellee Great American Indemnity Company, insurer of the automobile of William M. House, who drove his car into the back of the stopped car occupied by William H. Hughes and his family, the appellants.1 About three minutes before that accident the Hughes car had been in head-on collision with the car of one Murray...

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