KLAUS v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 21057.

107 So.2d 305 (1958)

Joseph A. KLAUS, for the Use and Benefit of his minor child Alexander Leonard Klaus, v. The SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

December 15, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Adkins, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Curtis, Foster & Dillon, John C. Foster, Gerard M. Dillon, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Monroe & Lemann, J. Raburn Monroe, Walter J. Suthon, Jr., New Orleans, of counsel, for Southern Railway Company.


JANVIER, Judge.

In the experience on this Court of the author of this opinion seldom if ever has there been presented a case in which our sympathies have made so great an endeavor to dominate our judgment. But seldom if ever has a record made it so absolutely impossible to permit recovery of damages.

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