Lewis v. A. Moresi Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

The plaintiff in this suit is a negro farm laborer, sixty-two years old, who was employed by the defendant company as a field hand on its sugar cane farm or plantation in St. Mary Parish. On the morning of February 4, 1938, he sustained personal injuries when he fell from a wagon attached to a motor tractor as a trailer, in which he, with a number of other hands, was to be transported from one location in the field where they had been cutting frozen and abandoned cane, to another, where they were to continue the same kind of work.

He claims that he was injured by reason of the…