Perez v. New Orleans, City & Lake Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Rightor J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
In June, 1892, plaintiff’s son, in company with nine other young men, hired from the defendants, T. J. McMahon & Sons, a tally-ho to carry them to West End. On returning at about the hour of 11 o’clock p. m. , the tally-ho came in collision with a train of the defendant railroad company, while attempting to cross its track at the junction of Canal street and Carrollton avenae; and, as a result of the collision, the tally-ho was demolished and the son of plaintiffs killed, after being dragged several hundred feet.
*1392Alleging that the accident…
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