Moore v. Vance

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

REYNOLDS, J.

This is ah action, sounding in damages, brought by Bernard W. Moore, individually and for the use and benefit of his minor child, James Robert Moore, against Norwood K. Vance.

The petition alleges that on January 26, 1925, at the hour of between eight and nine o’clock, a. m., James Robert Moore, then nine years and two months of age, was walking along the sidewalk of Jackson street in Alexandria, Louisiana, in the direction of Bolton avenue; that, as he neared the driveway leading out of the private premises of Mrs. J. C. Blackman, he observed defendant backing…