STUTTS v. SISTRUNK

No. 3340.

245 So.2d 721 (1971)

Leola STUTTS, as Natural Tutrix of Clifford R. Moss, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James SISTRUNK and Traders & General Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1971.

Writ Refused May 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons, by G. M. Bodenheimer, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants.

Jack O. Brittain, Natchitoches, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, MILLER and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.


MILLER, Judge.

James Sistrunk and Traders & General Insurance Company appealed the trial court's decision that a motorcyclist driving on a highway at night without lights at a speed of 25 mph was not negligent because the area was sufficiently lighted by street lights and the oncoming motorist's headlights. We reverse.

After dark on November 7, 1968, Clifford Ray Moss, age 16, was driving his newly acquired "used" Honda 125 south on Louisiana Highway 175...

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