Lea v. Kentwood & E. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert Ellis, Judge. Action by James Rowans Lea and wife against the Kentwood & Eastern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Defendant has appealed from a judgment awarding plaintiffs $7,500 as damages for the loss of their son, a lad in his seventeenth year, who is alleged to have sustained injuries, whereof he died, through defendant’s negligence; the defense being a general denial and a plea of contributory negligence. Defendant and BrooksScanlon Lumber Company are under the same control, and are what may be called “interlocking corporations”; that is to say, a majority of the stock in each is owned by the same parties, the offices of the two companies are in the same building,…
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