Hanson v. Texas Co.

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

CARVER, J.

In an able brief filed in support of their application for a rehearing defendants’ counsel quote from McGinn vs. N. O. Ry. & L. Co., 118 La. 811, 43 South. 450.

“Were we to sustain the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court, we would have to ascribe fault to the defendant arbitrarily without any proof, and even really without any suggestion.”

And counsel say that much is the case here.

In the McGinn case a woman passenger on a street car alleged as her cause of action that after the car came to a full stop and while she was rising from her seat to…