Lumpkin v. Reiser Machine Shops
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Dennis Miller, Judge. Action by Roland L. Lumpkin against the Reiser Machine Shops. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
Plaintiff was a workman in the machine shops of defendant. He and another workman were assigned to keeping up a fire under a heavy piece of iron casting, the impeller of a pump, for the purpose of expanding the easting to facilitate the removal of the shaft of the impeller. The casting exploded and injured plaintiff. The flying pieces so injured his leg that it had to be amputated above the knee, and so injured the middle finger of his left hand that it had to be amputated, and so injured the wrist and bones above the wrist of his left arm that he can now hardly be said to have the use of…
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