Miller v. New Orleans Public Service Inc.

REDMANN, Judge.

The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans has a printed form “Jury Trial Order,” one of whose provisions is: “Each attorney must submit a list of all witnesses who will be called at the trial to testify no less than three days prior to trial. The name of any witness not appearing on the list will be prohibited from testifying.”

In this suit arising from an omnibus’s collision with a pedestrian, the bus company did not submit a list of its witnesses (two of its drivers and a passenger), although plaintiff counsel knew from a discovery deposition their identity as…