Chanson v. Morgan's L. & T. R. R. & S. S. Co.

Glynn Chanson, aged eighteen years, was killed almost instantly, on the morning of May 26, 1930, at about 7:30 o’clock in a collision between an automobile in which he was riding and which belonged to and was being driven by John D. Russ, and a locomotive of the defendant railroad company which was hauling a train of freight cars over the tracks at the crossing known as Chacahoula crossing in the parish of Terrebonne. His father, Frederic N. Chanson, plaintiff herein, filed this suit against both the railroad company and John D. Russ in solido, for damages arising out of his death. The de*604mand,…