Case Name: ROBY v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1912-04-08
Citations: 130 La. 894
Docket Number: No. 18,872
Parties: ROBY v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 130
Pages: 893–895

Head Matter:
(58 South. 700.)
No. 18,872.
ROBY v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO.
(April 8, 1912.
Rehearing Denied May 20, 1912.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Damages (§ 132*) — Personal Injuries — Amount.
Plaintiff has obtained judgment for $10,-000 as damages for the loss of his left leg above the knee and the partial loss of three fingers on his left hand. The court declines to increase the amount of the award.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Damages, Gent. Dig. §§ 372-385, 396; Dec. Dig. § 132.*]
Aijpeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thos. F. Bell, Judge.
Action by S. J. Roby against the Kansas City Southern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff for less than the amount claimed, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Alexander & Wilkinson, for appellant. F. J. Looney, J. M. Foster, and W. R. Percy, for appellee.

Opinion:
MONROE, J.
This is one of three suits for damages resulting from a railway accident in which plaintiff and his stepmother were injured and his half-brother killed. The facts and questions of law being about the same in all of them, the suits were consolidated for the purposes of the trial in the district court and the argument in this court; and in the opinion this day handed down in the suit entitled Mrs. J. A. G. Roby v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company, No. 18,870, 58 South. 696, the court has assigned its' reasons for holding the defendant liable to all of the plaintiffs; the only question left for decision in the other cases being as to the amount to be awarded.
In the instant case the plaintiff, a farmer, 31 years of age, who is married, had his left leg crushed at the knee so that it was necessary to amputate it, and, after a few months, it was amputated a second time. I-Ie also lost portions of three fingers of his left hand, his thumb and the little finger being the only digits that were saved. 1-Ie obtained a verdict and judgment in the district court for $10,000, and asks for an increase in the amount. We do not, however, see our way to a compliance with that request.
For the reasons thus assigned and for those assigned in the case of Mrs. J. A. G. Roby v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co., No. 18,870, 58 South. 696, this day decided, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Ante, p. 880.