Tomasik v. Shreveport Railways Co.

AYRES, Judge.

In this ex delicto action plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries, pain and suffering, for medical expenses, *555and for loss o*f earnings resulting from an alleged accident while a fare-paying passenger on one of defendant’s trolleys, September 11, 19S6. Negligence proximately causing the accident was charged to defendant’s operator-of the trolley in that (1) he was operating the trolley at an excessive rate of speed under the circumstances prevailing at the time and (2) in suddenly and abruptly applying his brakes with such force as to cause petitioner to be thrown…