Bouchon v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting her demand for damages for the death of her husband, father of her minor child. She sued individually and as tutrix of- the child.

Bouchon was electrocuted by touching a wire of the defendant company. He was a journeyman painter, employed by a firm of contractors, styled Steve Lewis & Son, and was arranging a swinging scaffold, preparing to paint the side of a building on Derbigny street, in New Orleans. He was standing on the metal roof of an overhead passageway that connected the second floor of the building with the second floor of a building…