Cook v. Louisiana & N. W. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Third Judicial District Court, Parish of Bienville; B. P. Edwards, Judge. Action by J. M. Cook against the Louisiana & Northwest Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiff sued for damages for .personal injuries sustained by his minor •son, Asa, aged nine years, who while walking on the track of the defendant company was struck by a locomotive. The boy lost his little toe and the flesh was torn from the bottom of his foot. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $1,000, the defendant has appealed.
According to his own testimony the boy walked from a tramway onto the track of the railroad immediately in front of the locomotive which was pulling a freight train, and did not stop, look, or listen before going on the track.
His testimony reads as…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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