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· 7/1/1902

Thompson v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad

Citations

  • 108 La. 52

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. There was great danger of accident in carrying on the work of reconstruction of the overhead electric lines and the railway track.</p> <p>2. It was not made satisfactorily to appear that plaintiff’s husband, a laborer employed by defendant, was guilty of contributory negligence.</p> <p>3. Whatever special patrol or warning party there may have been is it not shown that it sought to warn defendant of the danger by which he was surrounded.</p> <p>4. The risk was not one assumed by the employes.</p>

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