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PAYTON v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.

Nos. 5557, 5558.

285 So.2d 344 (1973)

Bertha PAYTON, wife of/and Lovell Payton v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC. Mrs. Lottie SHAVERS, wife of/and Robert Shavers v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1973.

Writ Refused January 25, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Hughes, Garrett, Carl & Roussel, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees Payton.

Harry J. Wheeler, Von Hoene, Becker & Garner, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees Shavers.

A. R. Christovich, Jr., C. B. Ogden, II, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before REDMANN, SCHOTT and BAILES, JJ.

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant in these consolidated suits appeals from a judgment which awarded personal injury damages to two paying passengers on defendant's public bus. Defendant addresses its appeal only to liability.

The bus had stopped, to let passengers on and off, in the parking lane of a multi-lane street, about 12' to 15' from its intersection with another multi-lane street with a wide neutral ground.

Before the driver began to move, he saw in...

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