Williams v. Thompson

PORTERIE, District Judge.

This is a civil action to recover damages in the amount of $17,250.00, brought by a young widow, but recently married, against the Bankruptcy Trustee of the railroad company, for the untimely death of her husband occasioned by the collision, at the Davenport Avenue crossing in the heart of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, between defendant’s passenger train and an automobile driven by decedent, its sole occupant. The automobile was a borrowed car, and was being driven by decedent from Bastrop to Winnsboro, in Franklin parish, to take home his bride of a few weeks, who had gone…