Herlisch v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhies, J. When the usual warning is withheld, the wayfarer has a right to assume that tins crossing is safe, and that the company is not violating the law and endangering human life by running an engine without signals.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhies, J. When the usual warning is withheld, the wayfarer has a right to assume that tins crossing is safe, and that the company is not violating the law and endangering human life by running an engine without signals. The citizen on the public highway is hound only to the exercise of ordinary care; and when he is injured by llie negligence of a railroad company, it is no answer lo his claim for redress that notwithstanding the omission of the signals he might by greater vigilance have discovered the approach of the train; if…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
This is an action in damages for serious permanent injuries, sustained by tbe plaintiff, by reason of his having-been struck by one of defendant’s locomotives, through the gross and culpable fault and neglect of its servants and employés.
The occurrence is alleged to have happened on the evening of the 20th of August, 1889, at the intersection of Clara and Poydras. streets, in the city of New Orleans, as the plaintiff was crossing thfr former, the said locomotive moving westward from the company’s depot at the time.
Petitioner charges that…
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