Hammers v. Colorado Southern, N. O. & P. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; Charles A. O’Neill, Judge. Action by Charles L. Hammers against the Colorado Southern, New Orleans & Pacific Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
The railroad of the defendant company skirts the eastern side of the town of Eunice, running due north and south, along what on the map is East street. Though it has a regular station, its principal stopping place, where most of the passengers get on and off the trains, and where the busses come to meet them, is at Laurel street crossing. Plaintiff went there, just before the arrival of the morning train, to meet a friend expected by the train. The day was warm, and, there being no depot or other shelter provided there by the railroad, the persons who, like plaintiff, had come to await the…
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