GULOTTA, Judge.
New Orleans Public Service, Inc. appeals from a judgment in favor of Ernest Bourgeois for injuries sustained when he fell into a street "pot hole" left by a NOPSI repair crew. NOPSI concedes its own negligence, but claims the trial judge erred in failing to conclude that plaintiff's negligence or assumption of the risk barred his recovery.
On the wet and drizzly afternoon of January 24, 1983, Bourgeois, while moving at a "slow trot", was crossing...
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