Held v. New Orleans Railway & Light Co.

Plaintiff herein appeals devolutively from a judgment rejecting his demand for damages ex delicto against the New Orleans Railway & Light Co., and against its receiver, J. D. O’Keefe, and against the National Surety Company. As appellant, he has failed to appear in person or by counsel at the hearing before this court.

The petition sets forth that on August 11, 1918, at about 10:45 p. m., plaintiff, with his five-year-old daughter, alighted from a Milneburg train, at North Robertson Street and Elysian Fields Avenue, and was crossing defendant’s track at the lake side of North Robertson Street;…