Boulden v. Shreveport Rys. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
"Action by Miss Harriet Boulden against the Shreveport Railways Company. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
*977Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Defendant appeals from a verdict and judgment awarding plaintiff $4,615 (on a claim for $18,115) for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of a fall, the cause of which, as she asserts, was the negligence of defendant’s employes in starting one of its street cars, from which, as a.passenger, she was in the act of alighting.
This suit was instituted in May, 1915, and followed the discontinuance of a suit for $5,415, upon the same cause of action, which plaintiff had instituted in January, 1915; and defendant filed a plea of estoppel…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Morris v. Illinois Cent. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- Gipson v. Shreveport Traction Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
- McMelon v. Illinois Cent. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
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