Harrison v. Louisiana Western R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish, of Calcasieu; Winston Overton, Judge. Action by Mrs. Annette Harrison against the Louisiana Western Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
In the afternoon, at about 6 o’clock, in July, on a bright day, plaintiff’s husband, an old negro about 65 years old, was walking into the city of Lake Charles on the right of way of the defendant railroad company on his way home from his farm about a quarter of a mile out from the city on the railroad, with a sack of watermelons on his back, and had reached a point some 300 feet inside of the limits of the city, and within 200 feet of the first street crossing, when defendant’s fast passenger train, coming from the rear, struck and killed him.
This right of way has five tracks and is inclosed…
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