O'Neill v. City of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. Hawkins, J. Trial by jury.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
DeBlanc, J.
On the 18th of May 1872, while crossing from Magazine to Canal street, plaintiff stepped upon a flag-stone destined to span the gutter at the junction of those streets, one end of which was then laying in said gutter. He then and there slipped, fell with violence, broke his *221right leg over the Imee, and — on that account — was out of employment for the space of seventeen months.
He brought suit against the city, charges that the injury he has sustained was the immediate result of its neglect to perform a prescribed, an absolute duty, and…
2Cited by13 opinions
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- Clinton v. City of West MonroeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1939
- Goodwyn v. City of ShreveportSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
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