Harris v. Lopez

JANVIER, Judge.

At sometime between four and six-thirty o’clock on the morning of September 24, *4971952, Edward Harris, the 15 year old son of plaintiff was found dead in the driver’s seat of a motor truck belonging to W. E. Lopez and used by him with many other trucks in his business of drayman, in the City of New Orleans and its immediate vicinity.

Alleging that the young boy had been an employee of Lopez and had met his death as the result of an accident which had occurred in the course of and had arisen out of his employment, Olevia Perkins Harris, the mother of the boy, on August 24,…