Broussard v. Louisiana Western R. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; Wm. Campbell, Judge. Action by Mrs. Zulmae Broussard, widow, and others, against the Louisiana Western Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiffs,- and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
John E. Wright, husband of plaintiff, and four other men, were in the act of crossing the track of the defendant company’s railroad in an automobile on Eastern avenue in the city of Crowley, on a bright Sunday afternoon in April, when the automobile was struck by a fast passenger train of the defendant company, and he and one of his companions on the back seat of the automobile were killed. Plaintiff sues in damages in her own behalf and that of their minor children for his sufferings and death.
The other three men survived and testified in the ease.
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Roby v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
- Wachsmith v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Jones v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
- Dixon v. Vicksburg, S. & P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1916
- St, Louis & S. F. R. v. GuinMississippi Supreme Court · 1915
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- Daull v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1920
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