LEWIS v. THOMPSON

No. 447.

47 F.Supp. 435 (1942)

LEWIS et al. v. THOMPSON.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division.

November 3, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coco & Coco, of Marksville, La., for plaintiffs.

Hudson, Potts, Bernstein & Snellings, of Monroe, La., for defendant.


PORTERIE, District Judge.

This suit is brought by Lavie Lewis and his wife, Elnora, to recover from defendant, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, $20,000 damages for the death of their two minor sons, namely, Cephus Lewis, aged 20, and Jessie Lewis, aged 16, occasioned by the collision of defendant's freight train with an automobile driven by Sam Wickliffe on January 13, 1941, at a public crossing in Forest Hill, Louisiana.

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