Le Blanc v. United Irrigation & Rice Milling Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; William Campbell, Judge. Action by Dupre Le Blanc, Jr., against the United Irrigation & Rice Milling Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
The decedent was at work at the place assigned to him by the miller or foreman at *199the time that he came in fatal contact with the revolving machine of defendant’s mill.
That part of the mill consists of a machine known as a “reel.”
Each large mill operates five or six of these reels. They are indispensable in a rice mill. They, among other things, clean the rice, separate the straw from the rice.
The shaft revolves at about the rate of 76 revolutions a minute, and on this shaft there is a cogwheel, small in diameter, and a large wheel, the former moving the latter at a speed of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Bourg v. Brownell-Drews Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
- Ingerman v. MooreCalifornia Supreme Court · 1891
- Brinkman v. St. Landry Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
- Carter v. Fred W. Dubach Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
- Jones v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
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