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KARAM v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

No. 94-85.

643 So.2d 451 (1994)

Sharie Lynn KARAM, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Kristal Leigh Karam and Kayla Marie Karam, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY d/b/a Union Pacific Railroad Company, et al., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 5, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Michael Canaday, Donald Wayne McKnight, Lake Charles, for Sharie Lynn Karam Etc.

Andrew Duke McGlathery, III, Jeanne Marie Sievert, James Anthony Blanco, Lake Charles, for State of La. Dept. of Trans. and Development.

Gernine Mary Mailhes, Lake Charles, for Calcasieu Parish Police Jury.

Before YELVERTON and COOKS, JJ., and BERTRAND, J. Pro Tem.

YELVERTON, Judge.

David Karam was killed shortly before daylight on September 3, 1987 when the pickup truck he was driving south on South Thompson Road in Calcasieu Parish hit the lead locomotive on a 70-car freight train going east. Karam's widow, suing for herself and on behalf of their two minor children, named five defendants: Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Farmer's Land and Canal Company, Inc., the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, the Louisiana Department of...

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