Burton v. Illinois Central Railroad

Plaintiff’s husband was run over and killed by the defendant’s *363cars. In her name, and in the name of his children, she claims $35,000 damages.

She alleges that her husband was 34 years of age and a jewelry salesman earning $500 per month; that part of the railway system of defendant is the double track in the Parish of Jefferson which crosses at "right angle the Shrewsbury Road, running from the Mississippi River to the Metairie Road about a mile and a half above the City of New Orleans and having an enormous traffic of pedestrians, automobiles, trucks and wagons; that at the point where the…