FRY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO.

Nos. 30540-CA to 30549-CA.

715 So.2d 632 (1998)

Bonnie Carol FRY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Edward FRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Judy Carolyn ELDER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Two Cases) Rodney Dewayne GRAY, et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Two Cases) Bobby Ray STULTZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Two Cases) Jack Dan McGUFFIE, et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Barbara P. McGUFFIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

June 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy E. Bain, Shreveport, A.J. Gregory, Jr., Natchitoches, Rountree, Cox, Guin & Achee by Dale G. Cox, Shreveport, J. Philip Goode, Jr., Bossier City, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard Ieyoub, Attorney General, Lunn, Irion, Johnson, Salley & Carlisle by James A. Mijalis, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Defendant-Appellee State.

Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam by Arthur R. Carmody, Jr., Shreveport, for Defendant-Appellee Southern Pacific Trans. Co.

Before MARVIN, C.J., and HIGHTOWER and STEWART, JJ.


HIGHTOWER, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the rejection of personal injury and wrongful death claims arising from an automobile-train collision. Concluding, like the trial court, that the railroad crossing did not present an unreasonable risk of harm, we affirm.

Facts and Procedural History

On the afternoon of July 11, 1990, Barbara McGuffie and several of her relatives began a trip from her home in Keithville to Hamel's Amusement Park in Shreveport...

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