New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. John Wood

JONES, Circuit Judge.

John Wood, the appellee, was in a bar in New Orleans. A seltzer bottle exploded. Wood sustained a cut on his forehead. He has a scar which is somewhat disfiguring and which will be permanent. There is diminished sensitivity to touch and a feeling of dullness in the area of the injury, resulting from severed nerves. Invoking the Louisiana Direct Action Statute, LSA-R.S. § 22.-655, Wood sued the appellant which had insured the owners of the bar on their public liability for negligence. The jury, after being out for twenty-two minutes, returned a verdict for Wood in the…