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TURNER v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE INC.

Nos. 84-C-0911, 84-C-1405.

471 So.2d 709 (1985)

Musette TURNER v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE INC. James V. DRUM v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nahum Laventhal, Herman, Herman & Katz, New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondent.

James Maher, III, Wood Brown, III, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for defendant-applicant.

M.H. Gertler, John B. Perry, New Orleans, Robert C. Leininger, Jr., Metairie, Raymond P. Augustin, Jr., New Orleans, Darryl D. Sicarelli, Bailey & Leininger, Metairie, Basile J. Uddo, Donald M. Pierce, New Orleans, for respondents.

DIXON, Chief Justice.

These consolidated cases are not related, but have certain common factors. Each plaintiff was a pedestrian. One was injured by a public transportation bus and the other by a truck which was backing up. Writs were granted to determine whether our decision in Baumgartner v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 356 So.2d 400 (La.1978) was affected by the adoption of the doctrine of comparative negligence...

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