Trotter v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Lisso Trotter, a negro boy, age 20, was killed on the night of October 25, 1931, by defendant’s west (north) bound passenger train No. 23, a short distance north of Hyams flag station, in Natchitoches parish. Tom Trotter, father of deceased, individually, and as natural tutor of his two minor children, Leola Trotter and Alfred Trotter, sister and brother of deceased, and Forrest Trotter and Tom Trotter, Jr., major brothers of deceased, bring this suit to recover damages for the death of the son and brother. They allege that the defendant’s track at the point where Lisso…