Williams v. Kansas City, S. & G. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by Janie M. Williams against the Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Plaintiff’s husband was a brakeman in the employ of the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The usual place for the north-bound and the south-bound trains to pass each .other was Hawthorne, and the instructions to the train on which plaintiff’s husband was braking were to stop there; but *871the instructions were illegibly written, and the word “Hawthorne” looked like “Horn-beck,” a station four miles further; and the engineer, taking it to be “I-Iornbeck,” went on, and a head-on collision occurred, in which plaintiff’s husband was killed. The trains belonged to’ the railroad in whose employ…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hamilton v. Louisiana & N. W. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
- Travis v. Kansas City, S. & G. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lawrence Ferran v. Illinois Central Railroad Company and Falstaff Brewing CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961