Kelly v. Homer Compress Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Judicial District Court, Parish of Claiborne; John Thomas Watkins, Judge. Action by- Charles Kelly against the Homer Compress Conrpany. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
Plaintiff was injured while engaged in the work of transferring a boiler, ordered for defendant company’s compress, from the railroad platform to and into the boiler house adjacent to the platform.
He was a fellow laborer with Bebee Kim-bell, who was killed in the same accident.
Kimbell’s parents sued the compress company. The two suits — that one and this one —were filed at the same time.
Growing out of the same occurrence and dependent on the same state of facts, the two suits were consolidated and tried together.
The opinion of the Court this day handed down in the Kimbell Case, 109 La. 963,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kimbell v. Homer Compress & Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
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