Lege v. Pioneer Casualty Co.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

This is a tort action resulting from an accident occurring on July 23, 1961, in the vicinity of an oil well site near Grand Chenier, Louisiana.

Plaintiff was a member of a crew working for Crain Brothers, Inc., in building a boardroad across a marsh to a proposed well location. The boardroad ran a distance of about 1,900 feet from a public road to the matting that had been constructed for the location of the drilling rig and derrick. This matting was about 100 feet *636square; on the west of it was a wing having a width of approximately 16 feet and a length of approximately 90 feet.…