SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CASUALTY INS. CO. v. DESHOTEL

No. 17771.

273 F.2d 489 (1960)

SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Victoria DESHOTEL, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Dubuisson, Dubuisson & Dubuisson, Opelousas, La., for appellant.

Robert E. Turner, H. Alva Brumfield, Baton Rouge, La., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, urging that, in an automobile collision, appellee was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law, seeks reversal of a judgment for appellee rendered by the court below, sitting without a jury. On a Sunday morning three automobiles were proceeding south at about the same speed on a straight blacktop road in southern Louisiana. The front vehicle, a pickup truck upon which insurance...

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