McLaughlin v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff claims damages caused by the death of his son, aged eleven years and four months, occasioned, he alleges, by the negligence of a motorman in charge of an electric car owned and operated by the defendant.

In September of last year Michael McLaughlin; Jr., petitioner’s son, was proceeding out of Melpomene street, in this city, driving a-hoop with a stick or small rod he held in his right hand, and in so doing was crossing St. Charles avenue at its intersection with Mel" pomene street. While in the act of crossing the track of the…