Ledet v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad

JANVIER, Judge,

At about 2:00 a.m., on the morning of July 22, 1953, at a railroad crossing near Boutte, a sparsely settled neighborhood, some 18 or 20 miles west of New Orleans, a motor truck belonging to plaintiff, Jerry J. Ledet, stalled oh the main line track of defendant railroad company, and shortly thereafter was struck and demolished by a locomotive of defendant company which was pulling a string of 77 freight cars towards the City of New Orleans.

Alleging' that the cause of the accident was negligence on the part of the engineer operating the locomotive and that his truck, before its-…