Young v. City of New Orleans

Plaintiff, as widow, brings this suit for damages for the death of her husband, who was severely injured in a collision between a switch engine of the defendant, the Public Belt Railroad Commission of New Orleans, and a grocery wagon which the deceased was driving at the time of the accident, on April 11, 1924, at 11:30 a. m., at the intersection of Bienville street and the tracks of defendant near the river in this city.

The petition charges several grounds of negligence against the defendant, as follows:

That the engine was operated at an excessive and dangerous rate of speed at a public…