Legal Opinion
Snow v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 2, 1936No. 5217PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMITER, Judge.
Bill Snow, a negro section laborer in the employ of defendant company, was drowned on July 26, 1933, in a stream, known as Robeline bayou, which flows beneath a bridge on the main line of that company, such bridge being located nine telegraph poles west of the town of Robeline in Natchitoches parish.
This suit was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 51-59, by decedent’s widow, in the capacity of administratrix, seeking damages for the use and benefit of herself and two minor children of the deceased.
For several days during the month of July, 1933,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. HortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. v. McDadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway Co. v. HallSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Southern Railway Co. v. PrescottSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Jacobs v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Williams v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Harris v. Yazoo M. v. R. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1938
- Landis Young v. Gossett WinnLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1936