Case ID: so2d_435/html/0423-03.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Severino RODRIGUEZ, et al. v. NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE, INC.
    No. 80-C-2881.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Aug. 9, 1983.
   DENNIS, Judge,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent.

Included in those risks associated with the conducting of a common carrier enterprise is the risk of harm to a passenger caused by unruly fellow passengers whom the common carrier fails to oversee despite adequate reason to do so. That exact risk is present in this case and I see no reason to forsake our rule which would impose the highest degree of care upon a common carrier to guard against such attacks. Furthermore, as expressed in the reasons assigned by Calogero, J., I believe that the facts support plaintiff’s recovery under a standard of reasonable care.