GREEN v. TEXAS & P. RY. CO.

No. 9862.

369 So.2d 248 (1979)

Elridge J. GREEN v. The TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. and L. E. Carmichael.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Esmond Phelps, II, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for The Texas and Pacific Railway Co., defendants-appellants.

Joel T. Chaisson, Destrehan, Paul L. Billingsley, New Orleans, for Elridge J. Green, plaintiff-appellee.

Before SAMUEL, STOULIG and BOUTALL, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a case involving a collision between an automobile and a locomotive.

On April 30, 1973, an automobile driven by the appellee, Elridge J. Green, was struck by a locomotive of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, the appellant in this action. Green sued for injuries and property damage suffered in the accident. After trial on the merits, the trial judge found that the sole and proximate cause of the accident was the negligence of the...

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