Whitworth v. Shreveport Belt Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Alfred Dillingham Land, Judge. Action by C. E. N. Whitworth and another against the Shreveport Belt Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, C. J.
This action is brought by Mrs. Carrie E. Nola Whitworth, the widow of P. B. Whitworth, in her own behalf, and by Lester Allen Whitworth, the minor son of P. B. Whitworth, represented by his guardian, G. W. Prewitt. A judgment is prayed for in favor of each of the plaintiffs for $15,000.
It is alleged that P. B. Whitworth, the husband of one of the plaintiffs, and the fa-*365thee of the other, was killed on August 1, 1901, in the city of Shreveport, by an electric shock communicated to his body from the electric wires of the Shreveport Belt Railway Company; that…
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