Builliard v. New Orleans Terminal Co.

ODOM, Justice.

Plaintiff sued defendant for damages resulting from personal injuries which he alleged were caused by the fault of the defendant. Pie alleged that while he and other laborers were crossing Bayou St. John on a drawbridge owned and operated by defendant, the bridge tender, without warning and without apparent necessity, began to raise the draw which spans the bayou; that the raising of the draw put him in great danger of death or bodily injuries, and that it became necessary for him to jump from the draw to the bank of the bayou, and in doing so sustained a longitudinal fracture…