Bland v. Shreveport Belt Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the First Judicial Disrict Oourt for the Parish of Oaddo. Land, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
The plaintiffs claimed damages for the death of their son, Charles M. Bland, aged about twenty-two years and unmarried. He was electrician and lineman; the witnesses state, of the defendant company.
The latter operates a belt line, electric railway, in the city of Shreveport. The electricity is supplied through a trolley wire hanging over the roadbed, by means of suspension wires fastened to poles standing on each side of the road. The height of these poles *1058is about twenty-five or thirty feet and their diameter eight or ten inches. On a…
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