Alphonso v. American Iron & Machine Works Co.

CAILLOUET, District Judge.

On October 21, 1939, Earl Peter Alphonso, a welder’s helper, was returning with Emmett Craig (his co-worker, who described himself, by his testimony on the trial, as a combination welder and boiler maker), to the American Iron and Machine Works Company shop at Harvey, La., from the doing of a welding job, that afternoon, on a drilling rig of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, located at Port Sulphur, La.

Craig, as was the usual course of procedure, had been directed to said job by the shop foreman of the American Iron and Machine Works Company, upon call made for…