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LACOSTE v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERV. INC.

No. 8648.

353 So.2d 405 (1977)

Madeline Barry LACOSTE v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC. and South Central Bell Telephone Co.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest V. Richards, IV, Metairie, Frederic A. Wild, III, New Orleans, for Madeline Barry LaCoste, plaintiff-appellee.

D. Dickinson Bann, Metairie, James D. Rives, New Orleans, for South Central Bell Tel. Co., defendant-appellant.

C. B. Ogden, II, New Orleans, for New Orleans Public Service, Inc., defendant-appellant, third party defendant.

Before LEMMON, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.

BOUTALL, Judge.

Madeline Barry Lacoste was awarded damages for personal injuries against South Central Bell Telephone Company occasioned by her being thrown from the seat of a New Orleans Public Service Inc. bus which stopped abruptly for a falling wire owned by the Telephone Company. The Telephone Company appeals, it being the only defendant cast in judgment.

Plaintiff was a passenger on the bus proceeding along Wickfield Drive in the City of New Orleans...

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