Comeaux v. South Coast Corporation

JANVIER, Judge.

Mathilda Polidore Comeaux, a colored female agricultural laborer, seeks recovery ex delicto for personal injuries sustained while she was being transported to work in a motortruck on the morning of January 11, 1936. She alleges that the truck belonged to her employer, the Southcoast Corporation, and that it was being operated by an employee of the said employer and that the negligence of the said operator was the sole cause of the accident.

The defendant interposes two alternative defenses. It contends that the nature of its business was hazardous in certain particulars and…