Legal Opinion
Vandevender v. New Iberia N. R. Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 29, 1935No. 1476PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ELLIOTT, Judge.
Van Vandevender claims of New Iberia & Northern Railroad Company the sum of. $600 as the value of an automobile belonging to him’ which he alleges was destroyed by fire. The fire is alleged to have resulted from the negligence and fault of the defendant in failing to keep the crossing, where it crosses a highway, in the condition prescribed by the Revised Statutes of Louisiana of 1870, § 691, amended by Act No. 157 of 1910.
The defendant appeared and urged as an exception to plaintiff’s suit that his petition set forth no right or cause of action. The plaintiff was permitted by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Darby v. New Orleans, T. & M. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1916
- Jones v. Tremont Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1916
3Cited by3 opinions
- Homeland Ins. Co. v. ThompsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1943
- Brandon v. Texas New Orleans R. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1936
- McKinley Janice, Jr. v. The Texas and Pacific Railway Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968