Roberts v. Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Action by Mrs. Mary Roberts, widow, against the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiff sued'for $10,000 damages for the death of her son Archie Roberts, aged about 25 years, who was killed on January 17,1911, by a train of the defendant company, in the town of Pineville, near the end of the trestle leading to the company’s railroad bridge across Red river. The petition alleges that the deceased, evidently being fatigued by his long walk over the bridge and trestle, sat down on the ties a few feet from the trestle, and fell asleep, with his head down on his arms and knees; and that while he was thus asleep on the track a switch engine pushing a box car in front of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Lykiardopoulo v. New Orleans & C. R., Light & PowerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- Bogan v. Carolina Central RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1901
- McClanahan v. Vicksburg, S. & P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
- Hammers v. Colorado Southern, N. O. & P. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- Le Blanc v. NolanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1847
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