Fee v. Travelers Ins. Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

Johnnie Fee, the plaintiff in this case, was employed as a laborer by William F. Rogers, a road contractor who was engaged during the month of December, 1937, and prior thereto in constructing an underpass under the railroad tracks of the Kansas City Railway Company in the Town of Leesville in Vernon Parish.

In the petition he presented to the court he alleges that on December 3, 1937, while he was working in a ditch approximately 17 feet deep, he was in a stooping position handling a piece of lumber when a large boulder or clod of dirt, weighing about 100 lbs. fell from the…