Veasey v. Peters
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Suit by Thomas Yeasey against Henry Peters, Eugene Peters, and the ¿Etna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SOMMERYILL®, J.
Petitioner alleges that on or about August 6, 1915, he was working on the steamship Seria, which was then lying in the port of the city of New Orleans, as a longshoreman, in the employ of the stevedores Eugene Peters and Henry Peters, defendants; that he was injured in the manner set forth in his petition; that the defendants, Eugene and Henry Peters, were, at the time, conducting a business classed as “hazardous” under the terms of Act No. 20 of the Legislature of 1914, of the state of Louisiana; that he was accordingly performing services arising out of and incidental to his…
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