Legal Opinion

Mills v. St. Tammany & New Orleans Ry. & Ferry Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 3, 1916No. 20504PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; J. B. Lancaster, Judge. Actions by Mrs: Aurora Reisland Mills against the St. Tammany & New Orleans Railway & Ferry Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing her suit on an exception of no cause of action. Her demand is for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while stepping from a passenger car. Sh’e alleged, in her petition, that, in company with a number of friends and acquaintances, she boarded one of the passenger cars operated and controlled by the .defendant company between Covington and Mandeville; that, when she arrived at her destination in Mandeville, the car, in charge of the employés of the defendant company, stopped to permit the plaintiff and her friends to…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Morris v. Great Southern Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
  2. Lynch v. American Brewing Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
  3. Producers' Turpentine Co. v. PringleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Reynolds Metal Co. v. TL James & Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1954
  2. Doyle v. ThompsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1951
  3. Succession of Guidry v. Bank of Terrebonne & Trust Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1966
  4. Gray v. ElgutterLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1926
  5. Owens v. South New Orleans Light & Traction Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1925

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