Snider v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Oivi] Monroe, J. District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Plaintiff demands a judgment for fifty thousand dollars damages, for an injury received by the wheels of one of the cars belonging to and operated by the defendants running over and crushing his foot, thereby necessitating the amputation of his leg. The plaintiff had been for many years a plumber and gas fitter in the city of New Orleans.
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A PPEAL from the Oivi] Monroe, J. District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Plaintiff demands a judgment for fifty thousand dollars damages, for an injury received by the wheels of one of the cars belonging to and operated by the defendants running over and crushing his foot, thereby necessitating the amputation of his leg. The plaintiff had been for many years a plumber and gas fitter in the city of New Orleans. The defendants were engaged in running a line of street ears, propelled by electricity from Oanal street, on Baronne street and St. Charles avenue, to a point in the Seventh District…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The defendants own and operate aline of electric cars in the city of New Orleans, with double tracks. The tracks, which commence at the intersection of Baronne and Oanal streets, turn to the left toward the Mississippi river at Delord street, continue on that street until they reach St. Charles avenue, when they turn into the avenue and extend to what was formerly the village of Oarrollton. In connection with the main line are two branches, one at the intersection of St. Charles avenue and Jackson avenue, the other at the intersection of…
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