Jackson v. Travelers' Ins. Co.

This suit is brought by plaintiff to recover, under the provisions of Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended, compensation for the death of her husband.

Pack Jackson, the deceased, a negro laborer, had been for a number of years prior to and was on May 6, 1932, employed by E. Foster Schuler, with a crew in loading crossties from stacks along railroad tracks into freight cars. On the date mentioned he was so engaged near Longstreet, in De Soto parish. The ties were of pine, eight feet long, and weighed something over 200 pounds each. The testimony of the negroes in the crew is confused as to the work…