Shamburg v. Thompson

LeBLANC, Judge.

On the morning of August 4th, 1937, at about nine o’clock, Henry Davidson, a young negro twenty-two years of age, was run over by a freight train of the New Orleans-Texas and Mexico Railroad Company in the town of De Quincy, in Calcasieu Parish. He sustained severe injuries to both legs, necessitating an emergency operation but from which he died however at 2:30 o’clock of the afternoon of the same day.

His mother,. Agnes Shamburg, alleging that she has a cause of action in her own right growing out of the accident and death of her son, and that she has inherited his cause of…