Willis v. Vicksburg, S. & P. RY.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by B. A.. Willis and wife against the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BREAUX, O. J.
Plaintiffs are the father and mother of the late W. W. Willis, a young man about 23 years of age, who lost his life in the railway yards in the city of Shreveport on the 25th day of September, 1903, after dark on that day. The amount claimed by plaintiffs is $15,000.
A bill of exception is before us, taken by defendants, which will be disposed of preliminarily. The court charged that yards about a passenger depot are a public place, and those who go thereon to get on a train about to leave, and by mistake get on a train that has just come in, and is being pulled out to a coach…
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