Trenchard v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas O. W. Ellis, Judge. ' Action by Mary Lozano Trenchard against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company and Robert Powell. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss.
NICHOLLS, J.
Plaintiff sued the defendants to recover a judgment in solido from them in the sum of $30,000 for damages for the death of her husband, alleged to have been caused by the fault of the two defendants. The case was tried before a jury, •which returned on the 2'lst day of January. 1908, a verdict for $5,000 in favor of the plaintiff against the defendants, and on the ■same day the court rendered judgment for that amount in conformity to the verdict. On the 24th of January, 1908, Robert Powell, one of the defendants, applied to the court for a rule on the…
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