Lowenthal v. Vicksburg, S. & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Actiou by Flora Lowenthal against the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This suit was instituted against the defendant by plaintiff to recover the sum of $10,000 for injuries suffered by plaintiff, owing, as she avers, to the fault and negligence of defendant.
Plaintiff and her husband, on their way to Vicksburg, Miss., were passengers on defendant’s road.
On leaving Shreveport, they took their seats in the day coach, part of one of defendant’s fast trains.
This was in the afternoon about 3 o’clock. Within a short time after they had left the city of Shreveport, while they were passing the town of Haughton, at a high rate of speed, the front wheels of the train…
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