MEREDITH v. CONTRACTORS EQUIPMENT CO., INC., OF LA.

No. 10433.

178 So.2d 800 (1965)

George E. MEREDITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTRACTORS EQUIPMENT CO., INC., OF LOUISIANA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davenport, Farr & Kelly, Monroe, for appellant.

Theus, Grisham, Davis, Leigh & Brown, Monroe, for appellees.

Before HARDY, AYRES, and BOLIN, JJ.


AYRES, Judge.

Plaintiff's appeal in this action for workmen's compensation concerns the correctness, vel non, of a judgment sustaining a peremptory plea of prescription of two years. Invoked are the provisions of LSA-R.S. 23:1209 which provide, with respect to actions concerning personal injury (including death resulting therefrom) occasioned by accident, that "* * * in all such cases the claim for payment shall be forever barred unless the proceedings have been begun...

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