Wallace v. Louisiana A. Ry. Co.

Plaintiff sues to recover the value of his truck alleged to have been destroyed when it backed off of a bridge on defendant's right of way and fell into a borrow pit, and for other items of damages resulting therefrom, including loss of use of the truck. For a cause of action he alleges that when the accident happened, the truck was being driven by his employee, Orie Martin; that he undertook to drive over a grade crossing between mileposts 110 and 111 in Bienville Parish in the daytime, after passing over a narrow bridge on the east side of the right of way, and:

"* * * in his attempt to take…