Cherry v. Louisiana & A. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Parish of Webster; Richard Cleveland Drew, Judge. Action by John F. Cherry and wife against the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
The plaintiffs sue the defendant railway company for the death of their two little boys, one 6 and the other l(j years old, who were killed upon the Cemetery street crossing of the defendant’s railway in the town of Minden by being run over by one of the locomotives of the defendant company. Cemetery street is 40 feet wide, and crosses the yard of the defendant company. It runs east and west, and the tracks upon the yard run north and south. There are four of them • — three side tracks and one main track. The two lads at about 2 o’clock in the day were going west upon Cemetery street in a…
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