HAMITER, Justice.
Joseph R. Lawes experienced an accident on February 28, 1959, while performing the duties of his civil service employment with the Louisiana State Penitentiary as Correctional Officer Grade I at a monthly salary of $290, it resulting in the fracture of certain bones in his right leg between the knee and ankle (no joints were involved). Thereafter, the maximum weekly workmen's compensation was paid to him until May 3, 1959, at which time he returned...
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