Tomlinson v. Vicksburg
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Suit by T. R. Tomlinson and wife against the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for personal injury to their minor child. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs for $6,500, and defendant appeals, and plaintiffs, answering, prayed that the judgment be increased to $10,000, the amount sued for.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The defendant appeals from a verdict and judgment for $6,500 damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiffs’ child. The plaintiffs, answering the appeal, pray that the judgment be increased to $10,000, the amount sued for.
There is no dispute about tbe facts of the case, except as to matters of no importance in our opinion.
The child, only 20 months old, and her brother, 8 years old, returning from the post office to their home, went upon the railway company’s Tight of way to play upon a pile of cross-ties there. The boy dislodged a cross-tie that he stepped upon, and it fell from the…
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