Mason v. Herrin Transfer & Warehouse Co.

HAMITER, Judge.

While in the performance of his duties on January 10, 1935, as an employee of the Shoreline Oil Company, plaintiff was struck and injured by a falling chain. On that date, and for some time prior thereto, that company was erecting and constructing a new boiler house on its property at or near Lewis, La., and the defendant, Herrin Transfer & Warehouse Company, Inc., was engaged in the installation therein, pursuant to contract, of two boilers and the necessary huge smokestacks.

At the time of the accident, the boiler house, measuring 60, feet long and 40 feet wide, with walls 22…