Dyck v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co.

73 So. 2d 589, 1954 La. App. LEXIS 822

Opinion

GLADNEY, Judge.

Roland Dyck,, plaintiff and appellee herein suffered' personal injuries in the accident of December Í1, 1951, on U. S. Highway 80 involving a truck in which he was a passenger. Our findings on the issues of fact and law given in Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Company, La.App., 73 So.2d 583, are equally applicable to the instant case and our decision therein is controlling here.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment from which appealed be and the same is hereby annulled, set aside and reversed and plaintiff’s action dismissed. It is further ordered that the judgment in favor of the intervenor is annulled, set aside and reversed and intervenor’s claim is denied. ■Costs to be prorated equally between plaintiffs.

AYRES, J., dissents for the reason that he is of the opinion, that the driver of ■defendant’s truck was guilty of negligence ■constituting a proximate cause of the accident