Duvernet v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The plaintiff sues for damages for injuries caused by a heavy trunk falling on his foot from the baggage car of the defendant's train on which the plaintiff was a passenger. The defendant ■appeals from the judgment awarding plaintiff one thousand dollars.

The facts substantially are, that plaintiff, in undertaking to pass in front of the baggage ear when the baggage was being unloaded at a railroad station, received the injury for which he claims damages. The passage on which the plaintiff was when the accident occurred is about ten feet; on…