Murray v. Pontchartrain Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

Morris Murray was killed by a collision of his-bread-cart, which he was driving, with a train on the Pontehartrain Railroad on September 27,1874, and the plaintiff in the double capacity of his widow, and tutrix of his children, sues for twenty five thousand dollars as damages. The case was tried by a jury who gave ten thousand five hundred dollars, for which sum judgment was rendered.

The train was en route from the lake to its depot, and was passing up Elysian Fields street. The track is perfectly straight, and any one, at the point of…