McKINNEY v. AVONDALE MARINE WAYS

No. 21271.

107 So.2d 835 (1959)

Leonard J. McKINNEY v. AVONDALE MARINE WAYS, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

January 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dodd, Hirsch, Barker & Meunier, New Orleans, for plaintiff and appellant.

Lemle & Kelleher and H. Martin Hunley, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant and appellee.


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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