LeBLANC, Judge.
The defendant has appealed from an adverse judgment in the lower court which awarded the plaintiff workmen's compensation as for total and permanent disability at the rate of $20.00 per week and $500.00 medical expenses. The case involves the application of what has come to be known in our workmen's compensation law as the "proximity rule". That rule relates to the right of an injured employee to recover compensation when he suffers a disability that...
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