Castille v. Caffery Central Refinery & Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Mary. Allen, J. Plaintiffs claim damages for the death of their son, who was, they allege, in the quiet discharge of his duties at the Caffery Central Refinery, owned and operated by the Oaffery Central Refinery and Railroad Company, Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana and domiciled in the city of New Orleans, and which corporation owned and operated the said…
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APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Mary. Allen, J. Plaintiffs claim damages for the death of their son, who was, they allege, in the quiet discharge of his duties at the Caffery Central Refinery, owned and operated by the Oaffery Central Refinery and Railroad Company, Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana and domiciled in the city of New Orleans, and which corporation owned and operated the said refinery, in the parish of St. Mary, at the time of the death of their son, its officers, for whose acts it is legally…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
The ninth paragraph of Article 166 of the Code of Practice declares, as an exception to the rule which' requires that the defendant be sued before the judge having jurisdiction over the place of domicile or residence, “all cases where any corporation shall commit trespass or do anything for which an action for damages lies.” In such cases it provides that the corporation “ shall be liable to be sued in the parish where such damage is done or trespass committed.” This paragraph has been construed a number of times.
In Montgomery vs. the…
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