Legal Opinion

Gann v. Great Southern Lumber Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 21, 1912No. 18,973PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Washington; Thos. M. Burns, Judge. Action by Annie L. Gann, individually and natural tutrix, against the Great Southern Lumber Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Statement of the Case.

MONROE, J.

Plaintiff, as widow and natural tutrix, sues for damages alleged to have been sustained by her and her minor children by reason of the suffering and death of James M. Gann, her husband and the father of the minors, and she prosecutes this appeal from a judgment maintaining an exception of no cause of action, filed on behalf of the Great Southern Lumber Company, one of the defendants. Confining our attention to so much of the petition as it is necessary to consider in determining the question thus presented, we find as follows:

It is alleged that the Great…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DerbySupreme Court of the United States · 1853
  2. Williams v. Pullman Palace Car Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1888
  3. Ploof v. PutnamSupreme Court of Vermont · 1908
  4. Barrett v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
  5. Hypes v. Southern RailwaySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1909

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. LeBrane v. LewisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
  2. Vincent v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
  3. R. L. Stinson & East Coast Lumber Co. v. PrevattSupreme Court of Florida · 1922
  4. Taylor v. City of Baton RougeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1970
  5. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. De VoreSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914

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