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STRICKLAND v. W. HORACE WILLIAMS COMPANY

No. 15561.

230 F.2d 793 (1956)

Oscar L. STRICKLAND, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. W. HORACE WILLIAMS COMPANY, Inc., and The Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., Appellees and Cross-Appellants. W. HORACE WILLIAMS COMPANY, Inc., and The Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. Oscar L. STRICKLAND, Appellant and Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 19, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Meunier, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Marian Mayer, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before BORAH and JONES, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant and cross-appellee, plaintiff below, was an employee of W. Horace Williams Company, Inc. The employer was doing a construction job in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. The appellant was fireman of a boiler at the construction site. He rated his job as being heavy and strenuous. The appellee and cross-appellant, his employer, put the job on about the level of that of watchman. On September 9, 1952, while on the job, the appellant accidently...

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