DUREE v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY

No. 43788.

114 So.2d 594 (1959)

238 La. 166

Mrs. Allene Hopwood DUREE, Individually and as Natural Tutrix for the Minor, Diane Michele Duree, v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Harry Fuller, 2nd Asst. Atty. Gen., John L. Madden, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant and appellant and applicant.

Glenn S. Darsey, Lemuel C. Parker, Teddy W. Airhart, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.

Booth, Lockard, Jack, Pleasant & Le Sage and Henry A. Politz, Shreveport, amici curiae.


HAMITER, Justice.

Plaintiff instituted this action to obtain damage awards for herself and her minor child, the claim having arisen out of the death of her husband that resulted from a highway intersectional collision in East Baton Rouge Parish on October 27, 1954. Involved in the mishap were an automobile occupied by the decedent (as a guest passenger) and a motor ambulance belonging to the State of Louisiana. At the time the latter vehicle was being used in connection...

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