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BARBER LABORATORIES v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 40622.

78 So.2d 525 (1955)

227 La. 104

BARBER LABORATORIES, Inc. v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, New Orleans, W. W. Young, Joseph M. Rault, Jr., New Orleans, of counsel, for plaintiff-appellant.

Henry B. Curtis, City Atty., Luther E. Hall, Jr., Asst. City Atty., New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

HAMITER, Justice.

Alleging that certain employees of the Fire Department of the City of New Orleans acted negligently in their efforts to extinguish a fire in its premises, Barber Laboratories, Inc. instituted this suit against the named municipality to recover damages of $50,000 assertedly resulting. The negligence charged is that the firemen failed and refused to attach their water hose to a nearby fire plug, as requested by plaintiff; instead, they connected it...

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