Thompson v. J. B. Levert Land Co.

This is a suit in which the widow of one Leonard Thomas, a former employee of defendant, brings suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and alleges that her husband, the deceased, lost his life on the morning of June 5, 1923, while on his way to work and while in the act of crossing Bayou Lafourche, a navigable stream in the State of Louisiana, and while upon a small ferry provided by defendant for the use of such of its employees as live in Thibodaux, having occasion to cross Bayou Lafourche on their way to its property, known as Rienzi Plantation; that while so crossing, a barge, being…