Eggleston v. Louisiana & A. Ry. Co.

HAMITER, Judge.

All occupants of a 1937 Pontiac sedan, being four in number, were killed in a collision involving that automobile and a mixed freight train at a railroad crossing on- U. S. Highway 71, during the early morning of November 22, 1937.

The above styled six tort actions grew out of the unfortunate and sad occurrence. They were instituted by heirs and legal representatives of the decedents. The defendants impleaded in each are the train’s owner, the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, and the locomotive engineer, G. W. Smith.

The petitions of plaintiffs, the allegations of which are…