Anderson v. Elder, Dempster & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This ease is before us on a petition of plaintiff for dam- • ages in the sum of five thousand dollars against the defendant firm arid against its members individually.

Defendants were contractors in charge of loading the ship Inehuloa. Plaintiff is a longshoreman. He, and those with whom he was working, were hoisting logs and loading the ship at the time the accident of which he complains occurred.' He had charge of, and was running, the steam winch. This work, it seems, required all of his time, care, and attention while at work. He was with…