Bragg v. Boh Bros. Construction Co.

HENRY F. TURNER, Judge pro tern.

The defendant in this case, Boh Brothers Construction Company, a construction contracting company insured by Travelers Insurance Company, was in the process of installing some underground equipment in the City of New Orleans at the intersection of Canal and Magazine-Decatur Streets. To protect the public and in order to keep *259traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, moving, they erected barriers to block off the area o'? the street upon which the work was being done. The excavation was in the form -óí a rectangle, but on the river end of Canal Street there was a…