Brown v. Kansas City Bridge Co.

OTT, Judge.

Jasper Conrad Brown, son of plaintiffs, was drowned on February 10, 1938, when he fell off a barge into the Mississippi River as he was attempting to prize loose a sack of cement lying against the retaining wall of the barge. The cement was being unloaded from the barge into the river in connection with the construction of the bridge across the Mississippi River by the defendant company just north of Baton Rouge. Plaintiffs allege that their deceased son was over twenty-one years of age and unmarried; that their said son contributed all of his earnings to their support except his…