Neal v. Louisiana Arkansas Ry. Co.

Plaintiff sued as the dependent father of his son, Doris Adolphus Neal, commonly known as Pete Neal, alleged to have been negligently killed when struck and run over by a freight train of the defendant railway company. There was judgment rejecting plaintiff's demands, from which judgment he brings this appeal.

At about 6:45 o'clock P.M., on December 21, 1942, a regularly scheduled northbound freight train of the Louisiana Arkansas Railway Company, passed through the village of Goldonna in Natchitoches Parish. A few minutes before passage of the train Pete Neal, a young man about 29 years of…