Griffin v. Thompson

The plaintiff in this suit is the widow of Paul Griffin, negro. She sues for herself and as the natural tutrix of five minor children born of the marriage with her deceased husband, for damages arising out of his death following an accident when he was run over by a freight train of the defendant railroad company in the town of Opelousas at about 11 at night on Saturday, August 24, 1940.

In her petition she alleges that her husband and a companion (who it developed from the testimony was a white man) were both sitting on the end of a cross-tie against the east rail of the interchange track…