Hornsby v. Texas & N. O. Ry. Co.

DORE, Judge.

Plaintiffs seek the sum of $10,500 of the defendant railroad company as damages for the killing of their brother by a passenger train of defendant at a crossing in the City of Rayne in the early morning of February 2, 1938. The case was filed and tried in the Parish of Acadia, the situs of the accident. Under Code of Practice, Article 543, as amended by Act No. 267 of 1916, judgment therein was rendered, in open court, at Abbeville, in the Parish of Vermilion, on June 27, 1939, and said judgment was read and signed in that Parish on June 30, 1939, dismissing plaintiffs’ suit. The…