Bell v. Albert Hanson Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Percy Saint, Judge. Suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Izella Gaines Bell against the Albert Hanson Lumber Company, Limited, for compensation for the death of her husband. From a judgment denying compensation, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, C. J.
Plaintiff sues under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Laws 1914, No. 20) for the death of her husband, and the *825defense is that he was not an employé but an independent contractor. ,
Defendant owns and operates a sawmill, and owns timbered swamp lands for supplying the mill with logs. The logs are floated to the mill, after having been dragged from the place where they fell in the swamp when the tree was cut down to floating water, by means of a cable which is taken out into the swamp and attached to the log, and is then drawn in by a so-called “pull” boat. So-called “puil” roads, along which…
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- Helton v. Tall Timber Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1920
- Swain v. Kirkpatrick Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1918
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