Boone v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

McBRIDE, Judge.

This is a tort action brought by Daniel Boone, as plaintiff, against New Orleans Public Service, Inc., a public utility company, as defendant, for damages for physical injuries sustained by virtue of an electrical shock which he sustained on January 19, 1955, about 11:30 a. m., on Touro Street, between Catón and Foy Streets, in New Orleans, while standing alongside the chassis of a truck-type crane, which was engaged in work then being done by the City of New Orleans, to which was appended a boom which at the moment of the accident came into contact, or nearly *801so, with one of…