Morris v. Municipal Gas Co.
Decision Date | 25 May 1908 |
Docket Number | 16,678 |
Citation | 46 So. 1001,121 La. 1016 |
Court | Louisiana Supreme Court |
Parties | MORRIS v. MUNICIPAL GAS CO. et al |
Rehearing Denied June 26, 1908.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; George Henry Theard, Judge.
Action by George E. Morris against the Municipal Gas Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Henriques & Duchamp, for appellant.
Hall & Monroe, for intervener Horatio Lange.
George Washington Flynn and Edwin Thomas Merrick, for appellee Municipal Gas Company.
Samuel Louis Gilmore, City Atty., and Henry Garland Dupre, Asst City Atty., for appellee city of New Orleans.
The issues between the parties to this action being set out at length by the judge of Division "E," who rendered judgment herein, we copy his judgment in full. It was as follows:
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