Hampton v. Louisiana & Northwest Railroad

This is a suit to recover damages for an injury which the plaintiff, Jane , Hampton, received in a collision between. a wagon in which she was riding and a train owned and operated by the ’ defendant company.

■ Plaintiff alleges that she was travelling in a wagon north along a public highway ii the town of Gibbsland and as she was ■crossing a switch track of the defendant company a train was backing from the east to the west down said switch' track and struck the wagon, demolishing it and bruising and injuring her.

She alleges that her injuries caused her great pain and suffering, requiring…