Williams v. Pullman Palace Car Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Tissot, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Eenner, J.
This is an action for damages, for an injury inflicted by a servant of the defendant employed as porter on one of its cars.
Plaintiff alleges that he had purchased a ticket and was a passenger on a train of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Company between Zacharie Station and Baton Rouge, in this State; that, having soiled his hands, he went to the wash basin in the ordinary coach of the train to cleanse them, hut found there was no water, and on application to a porter or brakeman of the car, lie was told, “just step hack in the…
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