Richard v. Baldwin

LeBLANC, Judge.

Albert Richard, sixty-three year old negro" farmer, was killed by a train of the New Orleans Texas & Mexico Railway Company, shortly after 11 o’clock on the night of October '8, 1934, at a point some 2 to 3 miles east of the station at Opelousas. Claiming that the decedent was killed because of certain acts of one of the members of the train crew which constituted gross and almost criminal' negligence, his widow, Mary Grice, and his son Louis, who alleges that he is a minor, plaintiffs herein, have instituted this suit to recover damages on account of his death. The demand is…