Tabary v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Plaintiffs seek recovery in damages for the loss of their four year old son, who died as the result of being crushed under a very heavy street roller attached to a gasoline tractor, which tractor was started into motion by the tampering of older boys during the noon lunch hour and in the absence of the operator, an employee of defendant.

It is charged that the said operator was negligent in leaving unattended upon the city streets machinery attractive to children and so dangerous in uninstrueted, unskilled hánds as a caterpillar tractor, without taking such precautions as would render…