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HUNTER v. AMERICAN EMPLOYERS INSURANCE CO.

No. 1079.

153 So.2d 588 (1963)

Henry C. HUNTER v. The AMERICAN EMPLOYERS INSURANCE CO.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold & Giepert, Melvin J. Giepert, New Orleans, for Henry C. Hunter, appellant.

Bubert & Slavich, August J. Bubert, John A. Slavich, New Orleans, for Mrs. Olive Broussard Veazey and Otto Veazey, appellants.

Drury, Lozes & Dodge, James H. Drury, New Orleans, for American Employers' Insurance Company, appellee.

Before McBRIDE, REGAN and HALL, JJ.

McBRIDE, Judge.

On December 18, 1961, at approximately 11:40 p.m., under unusual circumstances, an accident occurred at about the center of the Greater New Orleans-Mississippi River Bridge which spans the Mississippi River at New Orleans. For some unexplained reason, five strands of rope dangled from the upper part of the bridge superstructure and at the ends of the rope strands was attached a large metal pulley. The high wind then prevailing caused the pulley to...

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