LEGE v. PIONEER CASUALTY COMPANY

No. 1151.

164 So.2d 634 (1964)

Elie LEGE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PIONEER CASUALTY COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants and Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 17, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones & Jones, by Jerry G. Jones, Cameron, for plaintiff-appellant.

Cavanaugh, Hickman, Brame & Holt, by Meredith T. Holt, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellees.

Hall, Raggio & Farrar, by Thomas L. Raggio, Lake Charles, for intervenor-appellee.

Patin & Patin, by J. Fred Patin, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGE, SAVOY and CULPEPPER, JJ.


FRUGE, Judge.

This is a tort action resulting from an accident occurring on July 23, 1961, in the vicinity of an oil well site near Grand Chenier, Louisiana.

Plaintiff was a member of a crew working for Crain Brothers, Inc., in building a boardroad across a marsh to a proposed well location. The boardroad ran a distance of about 1,900 feet from a public road to the matting that had been constructed for the location of the drilling rig and derrick. This matting...

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