Capillon v. Lengsfield

McCALEB, Judge.

On September 18, 1934, at about 7:30 a.m., the plaintiff, a colored ipan named Bernard Capillon, was driving his Franklin automobile on Jefferson avenue in the direction of the Mississippi river. He alleges that as he approached the intersection of Jefferson avenue and St. Charles avenue, the traffic semaphore stationed at said intersection was green and that under the traffic ordinance of the city of New Orleans he was entitled to proceed across St. Charles avenue; that he thereupon crossed the lake side roadway of St. Charles avenue, and the neutral ground of St. Charles…