Brown v. Orleans Gravel & Sand Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. Action by Mrs. Ellen Brown against the Orleans Gravel & Sand Company. Prom judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff sues for damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the death of her husband, and of the failure of defendant to return his body to New Orleans for burial; the facts of the case being as follows, to wit:
Defendant, having occasion to deliver a lot of piles and other heavy pieces of timber at a place or point called Burwood, on the Mississippi river, some five miles above its mouth, entered into a contract with Winston, a stevedore, to land them from the barges in which they were carried down the river; the expectation being that the work would…
2Cited by1 opinion
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