PAYNE v. CONTINENTAL SOUTHERN LINES

No. 9584.

135 So.2d 59 (1961)

Douglas PAYNE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL SOUTHERN LINES, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

November 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. B. McBride and E. F. Madison, Bastrop, for appellant.

Grove Stafford, Alexandria, for appellee.

Before HARDY, AYRES and BOLIN, JJ.


HARDY, Judge.

This is an action for damages sustained by plaintiff while a fare-paying passenger of the defendant bus line, attributable to the latter's negligence. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff in the principal sum of $250.00, he prosecutes this appeal.

While en route from Bastrop, Louisiana, to Beaumont, Texas, on August 7, 1959, a large suitcase, dislodged from an overhead baggage rack, struck plaintiff on the right side of his neck and upper shoulder...

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