Legal Opinion
Thode v. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 11, 1917No. 22125PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Grant; Wilbur F. Blackman, Judge. Action by August Thode against the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
"Defendant has appealed from a judgment awarding plaintiff $4,000 as damages for personal injuries sustained by him whilst in defendant’s employ and resulting from an accident which he attributes to defendant’s negligence. Defendant denies liability, and alleges that the proximate cause of the accident was the negligence of plaintiff, or of a fellow servant, and that plaintiff had assumed the risk of the same as incidental to his employment. It appears from the evidence that plaintiff, an able-bodied man, 52 years of age, was employed by defendant as a…
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- Bell v. Globe Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
- Evans v. Louisiana Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
- Williams v. W. R. Pickering Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- Dobson v. New Orleans & Western RailroadSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lewis v. A. Moresi Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1940