Tourmillion v. New Orleans Public Service Inc.

Plaintiff brings this suit for $231.10 damages to his automobile sustained in a collision with the defendant’s street car. The accident occurred at one o’clock in the morning at the corner of Canal And Lopez streets, in the city of New Orleans, on October 23, 1924. The negligence with which the defendant is charged is that the street car was being operated at an excessive rate of speed. Plaintiff alleges that his car was being driven in a careful and lawful manner, and while the driver thereof, to whom the car had been loaned, was attempting to cross from the downtown side of Canal street to…