Fulco v. Shreveport Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Action by Carmelo Fulco and wife against the Shreveport Traction Company. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
This is a suit for $10,000 damages for the killing of the plaintiffs’ child by a street car of the defendant company. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for $3,700. The defendant has appealed, and the plaintiffs ask that the amount of the judgment be increased to $10,000, or at least to $5,000.
The victim of the accident was a boy only three years and ten months old, who had wandered out alone from his father’s store into the street and was run over by the electric car.
Several persons who witnessed the accident testified that the car was going very fast, and that the…
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