Supreme Court of Louisiana December 14, 1908, No. 17,157 (Downey v. Baton Rouge Electric & Gas Co.)

PROYOSTY, J.

One of the passenger electric cars of the defendant company, doing service as a motor car, was going down Government street in the city of Baton Rouge, pushing ahead of it three platform cars loaded with débris from a torn-up street-pavement. When the front end of the train reached St.