Atkins v. Bush
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial._District Court, Parish of Grant; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Action by Jesse Atkins against Thomas A. Bush and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
This is an action for $15,000 damages for personal injury suffered by the plaintiff.
While he was riding on a wagon on the public road, a piece of barbed wire attached to a fence and extending into the public road caught his foot and cut it off at the ankle joint.
The action is founded upon the allegations that the fence, of which the wire had formed a part and to which one end was attached, belonged to the defendants Thomas C. Bush and Miss B. V. Bush, and was on their property, under the management of Thomas C. Bush; and that the defendants were guilty of gross negligence and had disregarded…
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