Legal Opinion
Fountain v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided March 6, 1967No. Civ. A. 13159PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYLE, District Judge:
The plaintiffs are seeking damages for the alleged wrongful death of one Garfield Fountain, their brother.
At the time of his death, the deceased, it is alleged in Article IV of the complaint, “was working for the Maloney Trucking Company in the U. S. Foreign Trade Zone at New Orleans, assisting in the loading of tractors on a railroad car.”
It is further alleged that the death resulted from electrocution when the boom of a crane, to which was attached a cable being held by the decedent, came in contact with an uninsulated high tension electric power line traversing the…
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