Dyer v. Rieley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. Leaumont,, J. Jury trial.
1Opinion of the CourtWyly, J.
Plaintiff alleges that on the twenty-second day of January., 1871, while he was employed as a roustabout on the steamboat Natchez„ the mate of said boat, Peter Rieley, while acting within the scope of his. duties and without any fault of plaintiff, threw a pine knot at plaintiff,, which struck him in the eye and put it out; he, therefore, sues the defendants, Peter Rieley, Thomas P. Leathers, and Anthony Pauley, the mate and owners of the Natchez, for twenty thousand dollars damages.
The court gave judgment on the verdict of a jury against all the defendants for five thousand dollars damages.
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