Southern v. City of New Orleans

Plaintiff, a negro laborer, employed by the U. S. Government in connection with its Mississippi-Warrior Service, brings this suit against the City of New Orleans, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while in the course of his employment on the river front, in connection with unloading of sugar from certain box cars on the switching tracks of the Public Belt Railroad.

At the time of the accident, plaintiff was in one of the box cars engaged in the removal of the sugar, when for some reason, a switching operation was commenced, and ended with what is alleged to have been an…