Cusimano v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

This is a suit for damages. The case is thus succinctly stated by the district judge: “In this case it is proved that the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s car; and it is proved that as she was alighting at her destination she fell and received serious injuries. In her petition she charged the defendant with fault and specifies it to be that as she was alighting the car started forward negligently so as to throw her to the ground. . I think the evidence in the case, by prepon deranee, fails to establish this allegation. * * * On the whole, I fin'd it to be a fact that the car did…