DOWDEN v. SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW HAVEN

No. 23073.

378 F.2d 46 (1967)

Mrs. Mittie L. DOWDEN, wife of James C. Dowden, Jr., acting in her capacity of provisional curator of the Estate of James C. Dowden, Jr., Appellant, v. SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW HAVEN, Continental Casualty Company, XYZ Insurance Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin L. Tunis, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

P. A. Bienvenu, William P. Rutledge, Ernest L. O'Bannon, Bienvenu & Culver, New Orleans, La., for Security Insurance Company of New Haven, defendant-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and YOUNG, District Judge.


GEORGE C. YOUNG, District Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant, Mittie L. Dowden, brings this action as provisional curator of the estate of her mentally incompetent husband, James C. Dowden, Jr. On December 17, 1963, James C. Dowden, Jr., an employee of W. M. Chambers Truck Lines, Inc., was injured when his tractor-trailer left Highway I-59, and overturned, some five miles north of Pearl River, Louisiana. At the time of the accident, W. M. Chambers Truck Lines, Inc., was under...

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