Carey v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Plaintiff claims damages of defendant in the sum of three hundred dollars for injuries to his left hand, which he claims was struck by the rear door of defendant’s street car while plaintiff was about to board the car on the neutral ground on Canal street near the corner of Bourbon street, in the city of New Orleans.

It is alleged that the door was thrown open before the car had stopped to take on plaintiff and some twenty other passengers; that it was negligence for the conductor to have opened the door before the car had stopped, and that the opening of the door caused it to protrude beyond…