Schmitt v. Algiers Public Service Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

The defendant corporation owns and operates a ferry system by means of which passengers, automobiles and other vehicles and property are transported across the Mississippi River, at New Orleans, between the foot of. Canal Street on the East bank of the river and the foot of Morgan Street on the Algiers or West bank of the river.

Shortly after seven o’clock on the night of January 22nd, 1952, the building known as the “Ferry House” or passenger waiting room and portions of the vehicle ramps leading to and from the ferry landing on the Algiers side of the river were destroyed by…