ILL. CENT. GULF R. CO. v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 12758.

426 So.2d 1385 (1983)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF RAILROAD COMPANY v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, Through NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC BELT RAILROAD and Strachan Shipping Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James O.M. Womack, Daniel E. Knowles, III, Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, for Strachan Shipping.

C. William Bradley, Jr., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, New Orleans, for Illinois Cent. Gulf R. Co.

Samuel O. Buckley, III, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for City of New Orleans Through Public Belt R.R.

Before SCHOTT, AUGUSTINE and LOBRANO, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

In February of 1977, John Deere Harvester Works tendered a combined harvester-thresher to Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (I.C.) for delivery to a New Orleans consignee. Upon arrival in New Orleans, the shipment was transferred to the switching carrier, New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. During the course of subsequent switching and spotting operations conducted by Public Belt, the combine was damaged when it...

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