No. 8175 Precedential Denied Processed

Dyck v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co.

Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit · Filed June 25, 1954 · 73 So. 2d 589

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., June 30, 1981 401 So. 2d 581; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., June 30, 1970 239 So. 2d 704; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., March 13, 1922 5 Pelt. 272; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., January 2, 1922 5 Pelt. 268; La., April 15, 1881 33 La. Ann. 473

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Opinion text

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