Chivers v. Roger
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Eighteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Lafourche. Caill’ouet, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
This is an action for the recovery of twenty-five thousand dollars damages for the death of the plaintiff’s son, which was caused by the alleged negligence and want of care on the part of the defendant.
It is alleged that the deceased was employed in the sugar factory of the defendant as a sugar maker, “ and was literally cooked to death in a vat of boiling water,” and that “having suffered untold pain and anguish,” he died soon after the accident happened.
The cause was tried and submitted on the 23d of March, 1896, but on account of the near…
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