Bourgeois v. New Orleans, T. & M. Ry. Co.

DORE, Judge.

For her cause of action petitioner alleges that her son Simon Bourgeois, Jr. was run down and killed by defendant’s train, through the sole negligence of the operatives thereof, at about 2 a. m. on March 3, 1933, at the trestle traversed by said train just west of the village of Lawtell in the Parish of St. Landry. Her petition sets forth that the section wherein her son was killed is densely populated and that it was incumbent upon the operators of defendant’s train to proceed through that area with caution; that if the said operators had been operating the train with proper care…