Dingle v. Shreveport Rys. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo,4 R. D. Webb, Judge. Action by Mrs. Eliza M. Dingle against the Shreveport Railways Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.'
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The plaintiff sued for $15,-000 damages for personal injuries suffered in a collision between a trolley car of the defendant company and a jitney bus in which she was a passenger. The jury rendered a verdict in her favor for $12,000, and, from the judgment for that sum, the defendant prosecutes this appeal.
The accident complained of is the one on which was founded the suit of Burt v. Shreveport Railway Co., 142 La. 308, 76 South. 723, in which the railways company was held liable for the injuries inflicted upon passengers in the jitney bus. The evidence in this case is substantially the same…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Burt v. Shreveport Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hanson v. Texas Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1925