AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 18382.

284 F.2d 942 (1960)

AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mary M. WAINWRIGHT, ind. etc., and Motors Insurance Corporation, Intervenor, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Gist, Jr., Alexandria, La., Gist, Murchison & Gist, Alexandria, La., for appellant.

Leonard Fuhrer, Guy E. Humphries, Jr., Gravel, Humphries, Sheffield & Fuhrer, Alexandria, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

William P. Polk, Polk, Foote & Neblett, Alexandria, La., for intervenor-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal is from a judgment on a jury verdict allowing recovery for injuries sustained in an automobile collision in Alexandria, Louisiana. The accident occurred on an east-west expressway, the double one-way lanes of which were separated by a wide dished-out, grass-covered neutral strip. The defendant was driving in an easterly direction. A truck came out onto the paved highway from a lane on her right. When for the first time she discovered the truck...

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