MAKAS v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.

Nos. 12549, 12550.

410 So.2d 351 (1982)

Mrs. Karen MAKAS, Individually and as natural tutrix and administratrix of the estate of her minor daughter, Darcy Lyn Hamburg v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC., General Electric, Inc., Electric Mutual Liability Insurance Company v. Mabel B. Seely, Wife of/and Bernard T. SEELY v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC., General Electric, Inc., Electric Mutual Liability Insurance Company and Elmer W. Robeaux.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd M. Greene, New Orleans Public Service, Inc., James R. Carter, Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel & Johnson, Gen. Elec. Co., and Elmer W. Robeaux, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

J. Robert Ates, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GULOTTA, BYRNES and WILLIAMS, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

This is an appeal arising from a case involving an intersectional collision between a New Orleans Public Service Streetcar and a van owned by General Electric Co., (hereinafter referred to as GE). The streetcar was proceeding north on Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans. When it was three quarters of the way through the intersection, it was struck by a van driven by Elmer W. Robeaux, which was attempting a left hand turn onto the neutral ground. The van...

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