Myers v. Gulf Public Service Corp.

MeGREGOR, j.

C.B. Myers and his wife, Mrs. Lola Myers, together with their children, Gordon, Hubert, Gladys and Arliue Myers, filed suit against the defendant on June 7, 1929, for the death of Lawrence Myers on January 22, 1929, by electrocution in the ice plant of the defendant in the town of Jena, LaSalle parish, state of Louisiana. The petition alleges that the decedent, Lawrence Myers, was the son of the plaintiffs, C. B. Myers and his wife, Mrs. Lola Myers, and the brother of the other plaintiffs.

It is alleged that, upon the invitation of the defendant through its agents and employees,…