YARRUT, Judge ad hoc.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment denying him workmen's compensation for an alleged incapacitating back injury. At the time of his injury plaintiff was engaged as a tack welder in ship construction and repair in the employ of defendant at its yard in Jefferson Parish.
On March 7, 1957, plaintiff suffered a fall from the top of a deckhouse to the main deck of an LST ship on which he was working, and sustained a severe back injury. Notwithstanding...
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