Graham v. St. Charles Street Railroad Company
Decision Date | 01 January 1895 |
Docket Number | 11,512 |
Citation | 16 So. 806,47 La.Ann. 214 |
Court | Louisiana Supreme Court |
Parties | PETER GRAHAM v. ST. CHARLES STREET RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL |
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Rightor, J.
Walter H. Rogers and William B. Lancaster, for Plaintiff, Appellant.
Harry H. Hall, for Defendants, Appellees.
Plaintiff seeks to recover a judgment against the St. Charles Street Railroad Company and Thomas Newman in solido for five thousand dollars.
Defendants filed an exception of "no cause of action," which having been sustained and the suit dismissed plaintiff has appealed.
The action is grounded upon the following allegations:
Defendants' counsel in his brief refers us to the case of Orr vs. Home Mutual Insurance Company et al., 12 An. 255, as containing a clear exposition of the principle upon which this defence rests. He says:
The plaintiff in this case does not appear before us either as one who, having sought employment from defendants, and been refused by reason of what he alleges to be unreasonable unwarrantable requirements at his hands, as conditions precedent to being taken into service, claims damages from defendants, nor as one who, having been employed by the defendants under circumstances such as to have legally authorized the employer, at any moment and without cause assigned, to discharge him, claims...
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