Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, ,T. This cause was tried by a juiy, who gave a verdict for the plaintiff for five thousand dollars. The defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Rost, J.
The plaintiff alleges that her late husband, Jacob Hubgh, was employed, at a monthly salary, by the defendants to manage one of their locomotive steam engines, the boiler of which was, from age and great defects, unfit for use; that the said boiler exploded while her husband was in the discharge of his duty, killing him instantly; and that the immediate cause of his death was the gross negligence of the defendants in failing to provide a safe boiler for the engine.
The plaintiff avers her destitute condition in consequence of the death of her…
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