Green v. New Orleans, S. & G. I. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth. Judicial District Court, Parish, of Plaquemine; R. Em-met Hingle, Judge. Action by Rachael Green, wife of Caesar Frederick, and Mary Green, wife of James Woodfork, against the New Orleans, Southern & Grand Isle Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment awarding the two plaintiffs (Rachael Green, wife of Caesar Frederick, and Mary Green, wife of James Woodfork), as the surviving sisters of Elijah Green, deceased, $2,000 as damages alleged to have been sustained by them in consequence of his death, said to have been caused by an assault made upon him by the conductor of one of defendant’s trains, upon which he was a passenger.
Defendant denies, among other things, that decedent was the legitimate brother of plaintiffs, and we shall first consider that question.
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