Potts v. Shreveport Belt Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Alfred Dillingham Land, Judge. Action by Birdie Potts against the Shreveport Belt Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
Plaintiff sues as the surviving widow of George Potts. Her action is one sounding in damages on account of his death, which she charges to the negligence and omission of duty of the defendant corporation. She asked judgment for $25,-000.00.
*4The jury that sat upon the case returned a verdict for $5,000, and from the judgment based thereon defendant appeals.
Her husband was 27 years of age when he met his death and she had been married to him only about eight months.
When killed he was foreman of a line gang operating for the Cumberland Telephone Company at Shreveport, La., and* engaged at the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Clements v. Louisiana Electric Light Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
- Brown v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1900
- Myhan v. Louisiana Electric Light & Power Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1889
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- Barrois v. Service Drayage CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1971
- Stansbury v. Mayor and Councilmen of Morgan CitySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1955
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