JANVIER, Judge.
At about 2:00 a.m., on the morning of July 22, 1953, at a railroad crossing near Boutte, a sparsely settled neighborhood, some 18 or 20 miles west of New Orleans, a motor truck belonging to plaintiff, Jerry J. Ledet, stalled on the main line track of defendant railroad company, and shortly thereafter was struck and demolished by a locomotive of defendant company which was pulling a string of 77 freight cars towards the City of New Orleans.
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