Williams v. Lykes Bros. S. S.

Plaintiff, a river front laborer, was injured while at work by being run over by an automobile truck owned ■ by defendant and operated by one of its employés within the scope of his employment.

At the time of the injury, plaintiff was manipulating a small hand truck across the roadway which parallels the sheds of the docks on the bank of the river.

Plaintiff claims that he was pushing the hand truck, and defendant’s witnesses contend that he was walking backwards and pulling it. Since it was his right foot which was injured, his counsel claims that he must have been pushing the hand *128truck, as…