LO CICERO v. COLUMBIA CASUALTY COMPANY

No. 17494.

268 F.2d 440 (1959)

Anthony LO CICERO et al., Appellants, v. COLUMBIA CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 31, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Rainold, New Orleans, La., Baldwin, Haspel, Molony, Rainold & Meyer, Richard C. Baldwin, New Orleans, La., for Anthony Lo Cicero and others, plaintiffs and appellants.

A. J. Waechter, Jr., John V. Baus, New Orleans, La. (Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., of counsel), for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Anthony Lo Cicero, an elderly gentleman, was struck and fatally injured by a police car answering an emergency call about five o'clock p.m. on Decatur Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Appellants (plaintiffs below), his children and sole survivors, sued appellee (defendant below), Columbia Casualty Company, the insurance carrier of the City of New Orleans, alleging that their father was negligently killed. The case was submitted to a jury,...

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