Helm v. O'Rourke
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. J. 1. Knowledge, experience, care and skill are* required in testing a boiler. XT. S. Revised Statutes, Sections 4404, 4418, 4427, 4429, and 4429. Edward’s Steam Engineer’s Guide, pp. 126-127, quoted pp. 15-16 of this brief. 2. It was the act of the O’Rourkes that caused, the damages, and they must repair it.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. J. 1. Knowledge, experience, care and skill are* required in testing a boiler. XT. S. Revised Statutes, Sections 4404, 4418, 4427, 4429, and 4429. Edward’s Steam Engineer’s Guide, pp. 126-127, quoted pp. 15-16 of this brief. 2. It was the act of the O’Rourkes that caused, the damages, and they must repair it. R. O. 0. 2315. 3. Mr. Webster’s definition of the word USB is: “The act of handling or employing in any manner or for any purpose.” The demolisher of a building is not using (to adopt defendant’s construction of the word) the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
MoEnery, J.
The petitioner alleges that the defendants, composing the commercial firm of Edward & James O’Rourke, are indebted to her individually and as tutrix of her minor child in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, “ for this, that on or about the 16th day of May, 1891, while petitioner’s husband, Frank M. Helm, was working at the furnace where he was employed in the boiler works of the aforesaid firm of Edward & James O’Rourke, in this city, he was called from said work by Edward O’Rourke, a member of said firm of Edward & James O’Rourke, to…
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