Nash v. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co.

Plaintiff seeks damages for the death of her husband, who was run over by one of defendant’s trains whilst crossing its track at one of the public crossings in the town of Colfax.

The train consisted of about 30 flat cars loaded with gravel, which were being backed on the main track at about 10 miles an hour, the locomotive being some 1,200 feet or more behind the lead car, and the direction being from south to north.

The evidence shows that there were two trainmen placed as a lookout on the lead car, and that the locomotive signaled when the lead car reached about 150 feet from the crossing;…