Legal Opinion
Austrum v. City of Baton Rouge
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided July 28, 1972No. Nos. 8931, 8932PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUCKER, Judge.
The above captioned and numbered suits which were consolidated for trial arose out of a collision which occurred February 2, 1970, at the intersection of Perkins Road and Terrace Avenue in the City of Baton Rouge. This intersection was controlled by a single semaphore signal which alternately showed red, amber, and green signals to control the flow of traffic on the two intersecting streets. By the testimony of several witnesses, some of them city-parish employees, the signal had not functioned properly for several days prior to the date of the accident, and in par*286ticular on the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- American Home Assurance Company v. CzarnieckiSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1969
- Bourgeois v. FrancoisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1964
- Wallace v. Hanover Insurance Company of New YorkLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1964
- McFarland v. Illinois Central Railroad CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1960
- McDaniel v. WelshLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1970
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Austrum v. City of Baton RougeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1973
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- Monnerjahn v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1977
- Allen v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1973