ROUX v. OLIN MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORPORATION

No. 2318.

192 So.2d 219 (1966)

Gerald ROUX v. OLIN MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORPORATION and Insurance Company of North America.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson & Hess, Leonard A. Washofsky, Samuel H. Collins, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lemle & Kelleher, Albert H. Hanemann, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before McBRIDE, CHASEZ and JANVIER, JJ.


JANVIER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages for physical injuries resulting from the accidental discharge of a mechanical gunpowder operated tool known as a Ramset, which was being used by plaintiff.

It is charged that the tool was defective, and that in spite of its proper use, it discharged when it fell to the floor from a low scaffold on which plaintiff had placed it, and, as a result of the fall, discharged the stud with which it was loaded and that this...

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