Walker v. Nona Mills Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vernon; John H. Boone, Judge. Actions by Delia Walker and by Ellis Stovall against the Nona Mills Company, Limited, consolidated. From a judgment dismissing the suits, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, C. J.
[1] The plaintiff’s husband, William Walker, was employed by one Harris to cart slabs from the slab pile of the sawmill of the defendant company. For reaching the slab pile he took the short road which passed under the log conveyor, instead of following the longer, but regular, road around. While he was passing under the conveyor in his dray a log fell from the conveyor upon him and killed him. He had worked at and about this conveyor for many. Shears, and had as full knowledge of the danger of logs falling out of it as defendant company had. This precludes recovery.
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