McCurry v. City of New Orleans

CIACCIO, Judge.

New Orleans Public Service, Inc. appeal*3ed1 the jury verdict which awarded plaintiffs damages of $50,000 for personal injuries sustained by Georgina McCurry when she fell over a trash can bracket embedded in the median area on Canal Street in New Orleans. Plaintiffs have answered the appeal and are seeking an increase in the jury award. Finding the judgment of the district court to be clearly wrong, we reverse.

The defendants contend that the trial judge erred in his instructions to the jury, and in his handling of the testimony of an expert traffic engineer, and in the jury’s…