Kimbell v. Homer Compress & Mfg. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Judicial District Court, Parish of Claiborne; John Thomas Watkins, Judge, vice Benjamin P. Edwards, Judge, recused. Action by Teenier Kimbell against the Homer Compress & Manufacturing Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
Bebee Kimbell, a young negro, nineteen years of age, was employed as a day laborer by defendant company.
The company was engaged in putting in boilers for its compress, and the employment of Kimbell was in connection with this work. He and five or six other negro men were so employed under the direction of whit.e men in the service of the defendant.
Kimbell was entirely inexperienced. He had been in the service of the company less than two days.
Two boilers had been brought by rail to the town of Homer, where the compress was being erected.
They were unloaded from the cars on a platform located…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rice v. Crescent City RailroadSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
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