Nations v. Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-ton, Judge. Action by Sayona Nations, individually, etc., against the Ludington, Wells & Yan Schaick Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals, and plaintiff files an answer to the appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Plaintiff’s husband received an injury to his hand while at his work as an employe of the defendant company in its sawmill. He died an hour or so later on the operating table, while chloroform was being administered to him preparatory to an operation upon the injured hand. Plaintiff brings this suit in damages in her own behalf and that of her minor children, issue of her marriage with the decedent, charging that both the injury to the hand and the death were caused by the negligence of the defendant company.
[1] The former clearly was not. The work to which plaintiff’s husband was put was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Phillips v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
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