Parrenin v. Crescent City Stockyard & Slaughterhouse Co.

Citations

• 120 La. 75
• 44 So. 990
• 1907 La. LEXIS 608

Syllabus

<p>1. Master and Servant — Injury to Servant-Duty oe Master.</p> <p>It is the duty of those employing persons of whom, from their youth, ignorance, or inexperience, it may be assumed that they are unlikely to use the precautions of age* knowledge, and experience, to protect them, as far as may be reasonably possible, from the consequences of their failure so to do. And whether the employe be young or old, ignorant or well informed, experienced or otherwise, the employer must furnish him with a reasonably safe place in which, and reasonably safe appliances with which, to do his work, or else must show where injury is sustained that the employe knew, or ought to have known, the danger to which he was subjected.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 34, Master and Servant, § 141.]</p> <p>2. Same — Failure to Warn Minor Servant.Held, that defendant is liable to the parents of a minor for injuries to the latter and the loss of his life resulting from his falling into a vat of boiling oil and water whilst engaged in skimming the same with unsafe and insufficient appliances, furnished by defendant without warning of the danger to be apprehended from doing the work under such conditions.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 34, Master and Servant, § 314.]</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>