Lapleine v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-first District Court, Parish of Iberia. Mouton, J. A document placed in evidence by defendant, on cross-examination of plaintiff’s witness, without restriction, is to he considered as substantive and independent evidence.
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APPEAL from the Twenty-first District Court, Parish of Iberia. Mouton, J. A document placed in evidence by defendant, on cross-examination of plaintiff’s witness, without restriction, is to he considered as substantive and independent evidence. Testimony of a witness, otherwise unworthy of belief, is to have full weight, in so far as it is supported by other credible testimony, and particularly when the supporting evidence consists of an affidavit secured from the witness by the party against whom she testifies, and is put in evidence by him. The negligence of a parent or guardian cannot he…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The plaintiff sues in behalf of his minor child, Marie Lapeine, to recover damages for injury inflicted upon her through the fault of the defendant company.
He alleges that in Api'il, 1885, Marie, with other children, was at play in the rear part of her father’s yard, on the inside of a plank fence separating said yard from the railroad track of- said defendant, when a train of cars belonging to the latter and loaded with split lumber passed along said track, and the stakes confining said lum*663ber becoming loosed-or disarranged, the lumber broke…
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