Bourg v. Brownell-Drews Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Albert Campbell Allen, Judge. Action by Arthur Bourg against the Brownell-Drews Lumber Company, Limited. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The following is the sketch referred to in the opinion:
1Opinion of the Court
Statement
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff sues for $21,000 as compensation for damages said to have been sustained by him in consequence of the death of his minor son, which event he alleges was brought about through the breach of contract and negligence of the defendant, by whom the boy was employed. Defendant denies the existence of the alleged contract and the negligence- imputed to it, and alleges that the death of the minor was the result of his own imprudence. The material facts, as we find them from the evidence in the record, are as follows, to wit:
In the summer of 1905, when the minor was a…
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