Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co. v. Cormier

Full title: SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL.…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit

Date published: May 2, 1957

94 So. 2d 904 (La. Ct. App. 1957)

Opinion

No. 4410.

May 2, 1957.

APPEAL FROM FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE RICHARD J. PUTNAM, JUDGE.

Edgar G. Mouton, Lafayette, for appellants.

Garland, DeJean LaHaye, Opelousas, Babineaux Huval, Lafayette, for appellees.

TATE, Judge.

This is a companion suit to Cormier v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co., La.App., 94 So.2d 901. The collision insurer of the vehicle driven by Carroll Castille, joined by the vehicle's owner, seeks herein to recover the property damage sustained by the Castille vehicle when it collided with the tractor owned by Ernest Cormier.

For the reasons fully stated in the companion case, the sole proximate cause of the accident was the negligence of Carroll Castille; and, accordingly, the District Court's judgment denying recovery to plaintiffs is correct and must be affirmed.

Affirmed.