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HAYES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD

No. 4063.

83 So.2d 160 (1955)

Leonidas B. HAYES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 22, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll Buck, Amite, for appellant.

Joseph A. Sims, Hammond, for appellee.

TATE, Judge.

This is a suit to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a passenger while or immediately after disembarking from defendant's railroad train. Defendant railroad company appeals from judgment awarding $4,993 to plaintiff Hayes.

Hayes, 65 years of age at the time of the accident, testified that he had ridden as paying passenger from New Orleans to Hammond on June 5, 1950, arriving at 9 a. m. Plaintiff's car stopped north of the Hammond...

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