Johnson v. New Orleans Terminal Co.

This is a suit for damages resulting from alleged injuries sustained by plaintiff while employed as a longshoreman on the docks at Chalmette, on April 10, 1917.

The judgment of the civil district court rejected plaintiff’s demand, and plaintiff has appealed.

The uncontroverted facts are that plaintiff was engaged in trucking cannon shells from a point on the docks to a ship which was receiving the freight. The truck was hauled by two men, one in front and one behind. Plaintiff was on the front end of the truck. These men were moving the truck along a narrow space between piles of freight, when…