Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Public Belt Railroad
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 20, 2000No. 2000-CA-0378PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
|¡TOBIAS, Judge.
Plaintiff, Vernon Cooper (“Cooper”), de-volutively appeals the lower court’s granting of an exception of no cause of action. The plaintiff alleges the collective and individual failure of several entities to meet various legal duties to him resulting in the loss of his leg when he was hit by a train.
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
Plaintiffs petition, including amendments which pre-dated the hearing on the exception, sets forth the following facts which, for purposes of this appeal, we assume to be true:
On 23 May 1998 at approximately 12:15 a.m., Cooper attempted to walk across railroad…
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