Meyers v. Ruddock Orleans Cypress Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. Action by Henry P. Meyers against the Ruddock Orleans Cypress Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
This suit was brought by plaintiff to recover $7,216 as damages from the defendant.
Plaintiff was injured in June, 1905, while at work at hi-s occupation as machine helper. He was raising the body of a locomotive in the yards of the defendant company. His part of the work in assisting the machinist, whose helper he was, was to place blocks under the locomotive as it was raised by a mechanical contrivance known as a “lever jack.” He urged that it was not a fit machine for the work, and that it was, in consequence, the cause of the injury.
This lever was at the time operated by the…
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