DUGAS v. HOUSTON CONTRACTING COMPANY

No. 1821.

191 So.2d 178 (1966)

Olivar DUGAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOUSTON CONTRACTING COMPANY and Zurich Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bass & Lawes, by James Collins, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Normann & Normann, by David R. Normann, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, HOOD, and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

The trial court dismissed this workmen's compensation suit as premature, and the plaintiff-employee appeals.

Under the compensation statute, a suit must be dismissed as premature if the court finds, as it did here, that the claimant's petition has not truthfully alleged that his employer has refused to pay him disability compensation or to furnish him the medical treatment to which entitled. LSA-R.S. 23:1314.

The plaintiff contends that...

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