Case Name: Mrs. Emelda JUNG, wife of/and John F. CARUSO v. TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA et al.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1974-09-10
Citations: 300 So. 2d 542
Docket Number: No. 6325
Parties: Mrs. Emelda JUNG, wife of/and John F. CARUSO v. TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA et al.
Judges: Before REDMANN and LEMMON, JJ. and BOURG, J. Pro Tem.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 300
Pages: 542–543

Head Matter:
Mrs. Emelda JUNG, wife of/and John F. CARUSO v. TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA et al.
No. 6325.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
Sept. 10, 1974.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 9, 1974.
Lee C. Grevemberg, New Orleans (Mir-anne, Grevemberg & Miranne), New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Lawrence D. Wiedemann, New Orleans (Wiedemann & Fransen), New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.
Before REDMANN and LEMMON, JJ. and BOURG, J. Pro Tem.

Opinion:
REDMANN, Judge.
* Does a petition's allegation that plaintiff wife "was violently knocked down by two unknown juveniles running through" a crowd affirmatively show that plaintiff wife and husband have no cause of action against anyone other than the juveniles?
Plaintiffs appeal from the dismissal, on exception of no cause of action, of their demand against the New Orleans Saints. Plaintiffs' petition alleged the Saints played a professional football game at a stadium the Saints rented and (presumably) controlled. Some automobiles were allowed to park inside the stadium fences, blocking certain exits, restricting egress and causing the crowd to become unruly.
A jury might, depending on all the circumstances, reasonably conclude that the Saints' allowing parking to block exits was so substantial a factor in the causative chain leading to plaintiff's injuries as to make the Saints liable. That the chronologically last (and efficacious) cause of the injuries was juveniles' running through the crowd does not necessarily defeat plaintiffs' claim.
The petition may be vague. But it does state a cause of action. The exception should have been overruled.
Reversed.