Castile v. O'Keefe
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; John E. Fleury, Judge. Action by Mrs. Abbie Castile, widow, etc., against J. D. O’Keefe, receiver, etc. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
LAND J.
Plaintiff sued for $25,600 damages for the death of her husband, James H. Moore, who on October 24, 1914, while walking along and upon one,of the tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad Compa¡ny, about six miles from the city of New Orleans, was struck and killed by a passenger train of the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad Company, then in the hands of the defendant receiver. The petition charges that the engineer and fireman on said train failed to keep a proper lookout for persons on or about said tracks, and that they gave no warnings whatsoever of the rapid approach of said…
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