Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Jones
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided December 14, 1953No. 41138PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCALEB, Justice.
On April 10th, 1950, plaintiff’s seven year old child, Jon Judith Jackson, a first grade pupil of North Highlands Public Grade School of Baton Rouge, fell on a pile of lumber which had been stacked on the playground by the defendant, W. R. Jones, a contractor who was engaged in building a gymnasium on the school grounds. As a consequence of the fall, the child’s left leg was lacerated by coming in contact with a nail protruding from one of the planks in the pile of lumber.
Alleging, among other things, that the accident is attributable to the negligence of the contractor in…
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