SCOTT v. STANDARD FRUIT & STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 620.

144 So.2d 488 (1962)

Thomas SCOTT v. STANDARD FRUIT & STEAMSHIP COMPANY and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 17, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christovich & Kearney, A. R. Christovich, Trial Atty., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Richard J. Garrett and Samuel Richard Exnicios, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HARDY, WOODS and DIXON, JJ.


WILLIAM F. WOODS, Judge.

This suit involves a compensation claim where the defendant employer and its insurer appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff compensation benefits at the rate of $35.00 per week for twenty-one weeks from the date of August 18, 1960, through January 18, 1961.

The plaintiff was injured on April 27, 1960, while employed as a freight handler, when a bale of cotton struck him in the back and side while unloading a box car. This employment...

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