Mercer v. Natchez, B. & S. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Grant; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Action by Mose Eli Mercer and wife against the Natchez, Ball & Shreveport Railway Company and others. From judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiffs instituted a suit against the J. F. Ball Bro. Lumber Company, Limited, for damages, for the death of their minor son, through the alleged negligence of the defendant, and Oliver Watson and h,is wife, about the same time, instituted a suit against the same defendant and also against the Iron Mountain Lumber Company and the Natchez, Ball & Shreveport Railway Company, on behalf of *189their minor son, for damages, for injuries received by him in the same accident. As the testimony that was required to be taken was, in the main, equally applicable in the…
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