Case Name: DI MICELE v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1918-12-02
Citations: 144 La. 230
Docket Number: No. 21644
Parties: DI MICELE v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.
Judges: O’NIELL, J., concurs in the decree.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 229–231

Head Matter:
(80 South. 264)
No. 21644.
DI MICELE v. ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.
(Dec. 2, 1918.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Railroads <@=>274(3) — Injuries to Consignee Handling Freight — Liability.
The consignee of a barrel of wine, who, instead of bringing wagon to box car, or up to platform used for receiving freight, undertook to roll heavy barrel down steps of platform, when it got beyond his control, and rolled -upon him, cannot recover from the railroad.
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge.
Action by Pasquale Di Micele against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. From judgment for xilaintiff, defendant appeals.
Judgment set aside, and suit dismissed.
Hunter C. Leake, of New Orleans, and Bolivar E. Kemp, of Amite (Blewett Lee and R. V. Fletcher, both of Chicago, 111., of counsel), for appellant.
Purser & Magruder, of Amite, for appellee.

Opinion:
PROYOSTY, J.
The depot of the defendant company at Independence having been destroyed by fire, a box car and a platform of the height of the floor of a box car were being used temporarily for receiving and delivering freight. Plaintiff took charge on the platform of a barrel of wine that had come for him, and instead of bringing his wagon to the door of the box car or up to the platform for rolling the barrel into it he undertook single-handed (imprudently, to say the least) to roll the heavy barrel down the steep steps of the platform. It was too heavy for him; got beyond his control; rolled upon him, and hurt him; and he sues the defendant company in damages. Evidently he has no case.
The judgment appealed from is set aside, and the suit i's dismissed at plaintiff's cost.
O'NIELL, J., concurs in the decree.