Ascension County Louisiana Archives News.....LeBlanc, Mr. and Mrs. Armand File Suit - 1908
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Source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
May 02, 1908, Page 3 


Damage Suit Filed. - Mr. and Mrs. Armand LeBlanc, of this parish, have filed 
suit in the district court at Baton Rouge against the Louisiana Railway and 
Navigation Company and the Baton Rouge Electric Light Company for damages in the 
amount of $30,000, claiming this sum as recompense for the death of their son, 
Thomas LeBlanc, who was killed at Baton Rouge in August, 1907, by being knocked 
from a freight car of the Red River Valley road by a trolley wire of the Baton 
Rouge street railway company. The petition of plaintiff's alleges that the wire 
had been lowered during the preceding day about four feet, and that there was 
not sufficient room to allow a person to stand on top of a car without being 
struck by the wire. The L.R. and N. Company is brought into the suit because of 
the allegation that the road did not warn LeBlanc, who was one of its employees, 
that the wire had been lowered. The unfortunate young man was knocked between 
the cars and killed almost instantly.


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