Gasca v. Texas Pipe Line Co.
Decision Date | 30 June 1925 |
Docket Number | 2363 |
Citation | 2 La.App. 483 |
Court | Court of Appeal of Louisiana — District of US |
Parties | ISABEL TRAVINO GASCA v. TEXAS PIPE LINE COMPANY |
Rehearing Opinion and Decree July 23, 1925.
Writ of Certiorari to Supreme Court Refused October 6, 1925.
Appeal from the Second Judicial District Court of Louisiana, Parish of Claiborne, Hon. John S. Richardson, Judge.
This is a suit brought by the wife of an employee killed by being struck by lightning. There was judgment for plaintiff and defendant appealed.
Judgment affirmed. Rehearing refused.
Judgment affirmed.
E. E Clack, Smitherman Tucker & Mason, of Shreveport, attorneys for plaintiff, appellee.
Barksdale Bullock, Warren, Clark & Van Hook, of Shreveport, attorneys for defendant, appellant.
This is a suit by Mrs. Isabel Travino Gasca as the widow and for Andrique Gasca as the minor child of Gil Gasca, deceased, for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act for the death by lightning of Gil Gasca while in the employment of defendant in Claiborne parish, Louisiana.
Defendant denied liability.
The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts as follows:
That the said Gil Gasca with his coworkers lived in a camp furnished them by the Texas Pipe Line Company approximately two miles from the place where the deceased was struck by lightning; that said Gil Gasca and his said co-workers were conveyed to and from the said camp to the place of employment where the accident in question happened by the said Texas Pipe Line Company; that meals were furnished by the said Texas Pipe Line Company to the said Gil Gasca and his said co-workers, said meals being brought from the camp to the place of employment and accident by the said Texas Pipe Line Company in a wagon which was stopped some seventy-five yards from the spot where they were working and the employees were given the usual noon hour off for lunch.
On final trial there was judgment in favor of the plaintiff and defendant appeals.
OPINIONJudge John S. Richardson, who tried the case, gave the following well-considered reasons for the judgment rendered herein:
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