FOREMAN v. TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS R. CO.

No. 14317.

205 F.2d 79 (1953)

FOREMAN v. TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS R. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Domengeaux and Jerome E. Domengeaux, Lafayette, La., for appellant.

Thos. F. Porter, Lake Charles, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act,1 by the widow of deceased, as administratrix, the suit was for damages for the death of her husband resulting from his being struck by a freight train belonging to defendant.

The claim was: that while deceased, as section foreman in charge of a motor car and crew, was traveling westerly on defendant's railroad track, he observed a freight train coming easterly...

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