Spanja v. Thibodaux Boiler Works

This is an action ex delicto. Sam Spanja sustained serious personal injuries while assisting in the transfer of certain heavy machinery from an automobile truck on the banks of a canal to a motor vessel lying in the canal.

The accident occurred in the late afternoon on March 17, 1939, at Empire, Louisiana, which is situated on the West bank of the Mississippi River several miles below the City of New Orleans. The machinery, consisting of two independent units, one a welding machine and the other an air compressor, and the truck on which these units had been transported to Empire, Louisiana,…