Varnado v. State

Ronnie L. Varnado claims of the Louisiana Highway Commission the sum of $21,418 on account of personal injuries received by him as the result of an explosion of a lot of dynamite caps.

He alleges that the caps were placed in a box in his store used for holding waste paper, by the agents of an employee of Louisiana Highway Commission. That said agents and employees were at the time performing duties incidental to their service. That said caps were placed in his store without his knowledge or consent. That not being aware that the box contained dynamite caps, he emptied it on the ground in the…