Palmisano v. New Orleans City Rail Road

Citations

• 108 La. 243

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Where urchins have been stealing rifles by hanging on to the rear enfl of a-gravel .train on the .street of a city, the employee in charge of the train, -who has in vain triefl to malee them desist by warnings apd threats, is entirely justified in catching hold of one of them and lecturing him.</p> <p>2. If the employee’s lecture has been temperate, and he has not rough used the-' boy, but has merely held him,' and no longer than was necessary for the purpose of the lecture, he, or his employer, is not responsible if 'the boy, a’ child eight years lacking three months old, on being turned loose, runs blindly in a direction converging with that of a coming car and collides with the car and is injured.</p>