Joe Poole, Individually and for and on Behalf of Any Persons Who May Succeed to the Rights of Corie Poole v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.

Hayes Poole, a Louisiana citizen, brought a civil action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, against Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a Louisiana corporation, and in his complaint alleged that while employed as a longshoreman engaged in unloading a cargo of sugar from the hold of a Lykes vessel, the S.S. Solon Turman, in the port of New Orleans, he was injured by the falling of a portion of the cargo upon him. The complaint charged that the injury resulted from the failure of Lykes “to provide a safe place in which to walk and work, as well as by reason…