Lewis v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; B. H. Pavy, Judge. Action by Mrs. Bessie Savant Lewis against the Texas & Pacific Bailway Company. Erom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPboyostx, J.
A bridge gang of the defendant railroad company, composed of a foreman and nine men, left Melville on a motorcar and trailer at 7 o’clock in the morning to go some 55 miles up the line to do some work. They reached their destination at 11 o’clock. They stopped work at about 3 p. m., according to the foreman, and later according to those of the men who testified in the case, and started back to Melville. They made a stop of about 10 or 15 minutes at Lamourie for water, and another at Meeker of about same length to let a train pass, and another of same duration opposite the house of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jones v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
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