Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana Volume 42; (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...that it occasioned the death of Pollich. The status and the extent of defendants' fault are established. Only the question of contributory negligence is to be settled at this time. Complete statement of the facts having been made in the decisions reported, it only remains necessary to state those not proven in those cases. The deceased was working on the loft of the building, taking down the trusses, on the 13th of August, 1886. Lynch his employer, who had contracted with the defendants to take down what remained standing of the main building and the government building, in the prosecution of his work had advanced a derrick to the trusses and had commenced taking down from Magazine street toward St. Charles street. The derrick was made secure by wire guys. Those on the side of the building were placed under the trusses. They extended from near the top of the derrick to the ground, and were made secure below at a point under the trusses known to be insecurely attached to the building. A row of trusses fell; one of them fell upon the guys which held the derrick in place. They had been so weakened by the stripping of the building that they fell of their weight, without the least touch. The span nearest to the derrick was attached and swung to it, and was about to be lowered to the ground. While the span or truss was so attached and swung to the derrick, one of the inside trusses suddenly fell, carrying down other trusses, one of which fell on the guys which held the derrick in position and carrying down with the derrick the span attached and which was about to be lowered to the ground. At the time the derrick fell, Pollich was standing on the truss which was swung to it. The fall carried him down and was the occasion of his death. The...