THOMPSON v. CORMIE

No. 15217.

220 F.2d 692 (1955)

Guy A. THOMPSON, Trustee of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Appellant, v. Joseph A. CORMIE and Sarah B. Cormie, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred G. Hudson, Jr., Monroe, La., E. R. Kaufman, Lake Charles, La., for appellant.

Edward M. Carmouche, Nathan A. Cormie, Lake Charles, La., for appellees.

Before HOLMES and BORAH, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellee1 and her husband, Joseph A. Cormie, filed this action seeking damages resulting from a crossing accident with one of appellant's2 trains which occurred on December 6, 1951, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The complaint alleged that appellee and her husband were traveling in a northerly direction along U. S. Highway 42, on a dark night, in an area unfamiliar to them, the automobile...

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