RIALS v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY CO.

No. 191.

127 So.2d 579 (1961)

J. Q. RIALS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

March 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davenport & Farr, by Robert T. Farr, Monroe, for defendant-appellant.

McKeithen, Mouser & McKinley, by Vinson M. Mouser, Columbia, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, FRUGE and SAVOY, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The District Court awarded the plaintiff compensation benefits for total and permanent disability. The defendant, his employer's compensation insurer, appeals, contending chiefly: (1) that the plaintiff is not now disabled from performing his former duties as heavy truckdriver; and (2), alternatively, any disability that he may have is caused by an earlier accident of February 1, 1956 while working for the same employer, and not by the subsequent accident...

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