HALL v. PIPE LINE SERVICE CORPORATION

No. 20557.

85 So.2d 706 (1956)

Lou Ellis HALL v. PIPE LINE SERVICE CORPORATION and St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

Rehearing Denied March 19, 1956.

Writ of Certiorari Granted May 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude F. Kammer, New Orleans, for appellant.

Christovich & Kearney, A. R. Christovich, Sr., A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, for appellee.


JANVIER, Judge.

On June 15, 1953, while plaintiff, an unskilled laborer, was engaged in the hazardous business of his employer, Pipe Line Service Corporation, the sharp edge of a piece of a metal drum containing tar which was being cut open with an ax struck him in the rear of his left leg, inflicting a severe injury and severing the achilles tendon in the rear lower portion of the left leg above the heel.

He was taken to Dr. J. W. Atkinson, a general medical...

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