Higginbotham v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.'

George Ernest Higginbotham was hilled on September 2, 1937, while in the employ of the Public Belt Railroad Commission of New Orleans. His employer maintains and operates a bridge across the Mississippi River a few miles above the City of New Orleans. It was while Higgin-botham was employed as maintenance man on the bridge that he was electrocuted. He was inspecting the piers which support the bridge for the purpose of ascertaining whether there had been any deflection from the perpendicular, using for that purpose a “plumb-bob”, composed of piano wire with a weight at the…