216 La. 769 - Salter v. Zoder

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1974 · most notably Benoit v. Hunt Tool Co. (1951), 276 So. 2d 286 - Smolinski v. Taulli (1973)

2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

HAMITER, Justice

¶1(dissenting).

¶2Conceding that the child in question enjoyed the status of an invitee on the premises, I do not find that the stack of lumber (with its galvanized iron covering) was a proximate cause of the accident and injury. The record discloses that during play the child tripped on some other and disconnected object, and, while falling, struck her face on the metal covering. Had an ordinary iron chair occupied the space at the time, rather than the lumber, the same injury might well have been sustained.

¶3I respectfully dissent.