COLEMAN v. RODORHO FURNITURE COMPANY

No. 21232.

116 So.2d 298 (1959)

James COLEMAN v. RODORHO FURNITURE COMPANY, Inc., and Employers Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

December 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman M. Schroeder and Harry J. Keenen, II, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles and Marian Mayer, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.


JANVIER, Judge.

In this suit for workmen's compensation the principal defense is that the disability of the plaintiff is not the result of an accidental injury, but is merely the result of a physical condition from which he suffered before the accident and which, without traumatic aggravation, has gradually developed to such an extent as to produce total disability.

The District Judge, accepting this defense, rendered written reasons for dismissing the suit...

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