Galland v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

LEMMON, Judge.

The issue in this tort case is whether the ankle injury sustained by plaintiff in alighting from defendant earner’s bus was caused by the bus driver’s failure to set the passengers down in a safe place (which was plaintiff’s sole theory for recovery).

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Plaintiff presented the only three witnesses at trial. Plaintiff herself testified: She and her 13-year old brother were riding the bus on the evening of the accident. The driver passed the designated bus stop at Canal and Clark Streets, despite a timely signal, and let them off on the lake corner of Clark (rather than the river…