Lapouyade v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Action by Louis and Ellen Courtiade Lapouyade against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiffs sue in damages for the death of their 17 year old son, who was instantly killed by an electric shock as he had reached up one of the wooden street lamp posts of the defendant company to a height of 6 feet or more from the ground, and caught hold of the end of the wire, there fastened, by means of which the arc lamp, which hangs at the outer end of an iron cross-arm high up at the top of the post, is lowered when needing attention.
The post stood at the street corner, between the Sehillinger sidewalk and the gutter, next to the gutter and out of reach of any passer-by on the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Lopes v. SahuqueSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
- McGhee v. Norfolk & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1908
- State Ex Rel. Stansfield v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1914
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