Louisiana Court of Appeal July 10, 1964, No. 1177 (Stein v. Missouri Pacific Railroad)

lead-opinion

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages arising out of an accident in which plaintiff drove his employer’s pickup truck into the side of the next to last car of a freight train which was slowly crossing a four-lane highway. A jury awarded plaintiff $150,000. The defendant appealed.

The scene of the accident is on Admiral' Doyle Drive, just west of the town of New Iberia.