O'Rourke v. New Orleans City & Lake Railroad
Citations
- 51 La. Ann. 755
- 25 So. 323
- 1899 La. LEXIS 467
Syllabus
<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. A boy eleven years of age, standing at night on the off-side of the downtown track of defendant company’s street railway, waiting for a car on the up-town track, which was farthest from him, to pass, and that ear having passed, without looking up the track' nearest him to see whether or not it was safe to cross, steps on the track twelve or fifteen feet in front of an approaching down-town car, trips and falls, is run over and his feet crushed. Held: A ease of want of care on his part barring recovery of damages, it being shown that notwithstanding effort on part of motorneer to arrest car, it could not be done in that distance.</p> <p>2. The motorneer had a right to suppose the boy was waiting for his car to pass, and to expect he would remain where he was out of danger until it had passed.</p>
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- holding that the grand jury foreperson, who was the magistrate who heard the case upon a preliminary examination and who committed the defendants to answer the charge, was not disqualified to act as a grand juror in the case against the defendants
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Judges: Blanchard
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