McMelon v. Illinois Cent. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Action by Mrs. Margaret McMelon, widow of George Hogan, deceased, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
On Christmas evening, after dark, the plaintiff, a lady of 60, boarded the train of the defendant company at Amite, where she lived, to go to Independence, to visit her sister, who lived there. The distance between Amite and Independence is not shown by the record, but we infer the two places are not far apart, since there is but one station between them — Gullett—and since the conductor testifies that, when the train reached Independence, he had not had time to make his round collecting his fares. Plaintiff took a seat in the rear, or ladies’, coach. The train was composed of five coaches.…
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- Farrell v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
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