BOURQUE v. MONTE CHRISTO DRILLING CORPORATION

No. 2661.

221 So.2d 604 (1969)

Valrle BOURQUE, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. MONTE CHRISTO DRILLING CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davidson, Meaux, Onebane & Donohoe, by V. Farley Sonnier, Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.

Domengeaux, Wright & Bienvenu, by, Bob F. Wright, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TATE, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

This is a workmen's compensation proceeding. The defendants, the employer and its insurer, appeal from judgment awarding the plaintiff workman benefits for total and permanent disability. The sole issue of the appeal is whether the undoubted total disability present at the trial was caused by the accident at work on March 23, 1966.

The employer's defense is to the effect that the workman did not preponderately prove the causal relationship—...

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