Seibert v. McManus & Long

Citations

• 104 La. 404

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Experiments made in the absence of parties interested in the results thereof, are, as evidence, in the nature of hearsay, and if received, the facts and condition under which they were made should be shown to have been identical with those of the case before the court.</p> <p>2\\ The fact that a furnace erected on property in New Orleans should have been put up without prior submission to the city authorities as to tho safety of the plan of construction, and that the plan of construction may not have been in accordance with rules adopted by the council concerning such kind of work, does not do away with the necessity of proving that this construction was the cause of a fire on the property by which that of his neighbor was destroyed.</p>