Legal Opinion
Higginbotham v. Public Belt Railroad Commission
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided October 31, 1938No. 34936PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAND, Justice.
Relatrix is the surviving widow of George Ernest Pligginbotham, who departed this life on the 2nd day of September 1937, in the parish of Jefferson, while in the employ of respondents, and is the duly qualified Natural Tutrix of their minor child, George Ernest Higginbotham, Jr.
Relatrix was married to George Ernest Higginbotham in the Parish of St. Bernard, November 2, 1934, and she and her husband, subsequent to their marriage, established the matrimonial domicile in the City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans.
The suit of relatrix against respondents was filed in the Civil…
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- Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. BolleSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Fluitt v. New Orleans, T. & M. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
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