Spector v. Union City Transfer

OTT, Judge.

The suit is to recover the sum of $2,200, the alleged damage caused to a steam turbine while same was being loaded and transported by the defendant from the plant of the Gulf States Utilities Company on Ryan Street, in Lake Charles, to a point on the Southern Pacific Railroad in the eastern part of said city. The defendant company is the trade-name used by H. E. Valee and son in their business of moving and hauling freight by trucks.

The defendant was employed by plaintiff to remove this steam turbine from the plant where plaintiff had purchased it to his junk yard on the railroad,…