Le Blanc v. United Irrigation & Rice Milling Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; William Campbell, Judge. Action by Dupre Le Blanc, Jr., against the United Irrigation & Rice Milling Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The plaintiff brought this suit to recover from the defendant $10,000 for personal injuries suffered in the death of his son, occasioned, he avers, by defendant’s negligence while his son was at work at defendant’s rice mill at Crowley, La.
Of the sum before mentioned, $2,500 are claimed for the physical suffering, pain, and mental anguish suffered by the son, and $7,-500 for his (plaintiff’s) own suffering, mental anguish, distress, and loss of the companionship of his son.
The deceased was 18 years of age, of average intelligence, and had never before worked in a rice mill (but on the farm of…
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