Francis v. Louisiana & A. Ry. Co.

OTT, Judge.

Plaintiff’s husband was run over and killed by a motorcycle owned by the city of Baton Rouge and operated by a police officer of that city in the early morning of May 26, 1933, at a point where North boulevard crosses the tracks of the defendant railroad company. At the time of his injury and death the deceased husband was in the employ of the defendant railroad company as a flagman at said crossing, and, in pursuance of his duties, had come out into the boulevard for the purpose of flagging traffic on said boulevard to permit , the safe passage of a switch engine of the railroad…