Legal Opinion
Hayes v. Illinois Central Railroad
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 6, 1955No. 4063PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
83 So.2d 160 (1955)
Leonidas B. HAYES, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 4063.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
October 6, 1955.
Rehearing Denied November 22, 1955.
Carroll Buck, Amite, for appellant.
Joseph A. Sims, Hammond, for appellee.
TATE, Judge.
This is a suit to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a passenger while or immediately after disembarking from defendant's railroad train. Defendant railroad company appeals from judgment awarding $4,993 to plaintiff Hayes.
Hayes, 65 years of age at the time of the accident, testified that…
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