BOURGEOIS v. FRANCOIS

Nos. 971, 972.

152 So.2d 383 (1963)

Hendrix BOURGEOIS, Sr., v. Nathan FRANCOIS, Oville Breaux, Sr., Individually and as the Administrator of the Estate of His Minor Son, Oville Breaux, Jr., and the Marquette Casualty Company. Willie Marie JONES, Wife of, and Nathaniel FRANCOIS v. Oville BREAUX, Sr., Individually, and as the Administrator of the Estate of His Minor Son, Oville Breaux, Jr., and the Marquette Casualty Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1963.

Certiorari Granted June 28, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Blotner, Gretna, for Hendrix Bourgeois, Sr., plaintiff-appellee.

White, Fray & White, Robert H. Fray, Gretna, for Nathaniel Francois, defendant-appellant, plaintiff-appellant and Willie Marie Jones Francois, plaintiff-appellee.

Simon, Wicker & Wiedemann, Thomas C. Wicker, Jr., New Orleans, for Oville Breaux, Sr., and Marquette Casualty Co., defendants-appellants.

Before McBRIDE, SAMUEL and HALL, JJ.


SAMUEL, Judge.

These two suits, consolidated for trial in the district court and for argument here, arise out of an intersectional collision on October 16, 1960, between an automobile driven by Oville Breaux, Jr., a minor 17 or 18 years of age, in which car Sandra Bourgeois, also a minor, was the sole passenger, and an automobile driven by Nathaniel (erroneously identified in the Bourgeois petition as "Nathan" instead of Nathaniel) Francois in which his wife, Willie...

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