Loftin v. Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh District Court, Parish of Red River; W. S. Cunningham, Judge. Action by Mrs. Serepta A. Loftin against the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
Plaintiff sues the defendant company in damages, in her own behalf and that of her minor children, for the death of her husband, father of the children, who was struck by a locomotive of the defendant company as he was passing over a crossing.
The defense is that there was no negligence on the part of the defendant company, but that the accident was due entirely to the negligence of the decedent, who did not stop, look, and listen before going upon the track.
' The train was composed of locomotive and tender, 20 freight cars, caboose, and one passenger coach, in the order here mentioned. It was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Blackwell v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern RailroadSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
3Cited by12 opinions
- Young v. Louisiana Western R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1923
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- Lockhart v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1934
- Gibbons v. N. O. Terminal Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1925
- Slayter v. Texas P. R. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1938
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