Wilson v. Louisiana & North Western Railroad

Citations

• 51 La. Ann. 1133
• 25 So. 961
• 1898 La. LEXIS 594

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Original judgment amended as to amount to $1,000 : otherwise re-Affirmed.</p> <p>1. It is the duty of the party controlling a railroad train to advise himself be fore it starts not only as to one part of the existing situation, but of the-whole, and govern himself accordingly.</p> <p>2. Though a train be a “repair train” and the employees thereon may have as sumed in accepting employment thereon that they may be in greater danger of accident than they might be under other circumstances, they have the right to assume that this very fact of increased danger being known to the-conductor, he will guide his conduct so as to minimize the danger by the increased care and precautions which the occasion calls for.</p> <p>Á railroad company which permits its tracks to become unsafe should be held, to an increased responsibility for the manner in which its trains are run on. such a track.</p>