Louisiana Court of Appeal January 11, 1938, No. 1783. (Ingram v. Meridian Lumber Co.)

LE BLANC, Judge.

Plaintiff was employed as a millwright in the defendant’s sawmill at Aleo .in Vernon parish. On the morning of May 20, 1935, while attending to part of his duties which required him to mount a scaffold some nineteen feet high in order to repair a chain, the scaffold gave way and he fell with it. In the fall he sustained a severe break of the left leg between the hip and knee.