Shafer v. Town of Madisonville

Mrs. Elizabeth Shafer, wife of Sidney B. Boudreaux, member of an outing party from New Orleans, consisting of about 400 girls, accompanied by their mothers, went on a pleasure trip across Lake Pontchartrain. • The trip was made on May 27/ 1927.

The steamboat Susquehanna, owned and operated by Susquehanna, Inc., was used by the excursionists for the purpose of making the_ trip.

The party first visited Mandeville, then proceeded to Madisonville, where they dis*147embarked and went ashore, that being part of the trip. For that purpose it was. necessary to land on the wharf, from which they proceeded…