CARTER v. AVONDALE SHIPYARDS, INC.

No. 6633.

308 So.2d 472 (1975)

Cleveland CARTER v. AVONDALE SHIPYARDS, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shushan, Meyer, Jackson, McPherson & Herzog, Donald A. Meyer, Hugh C. Uhalt, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Claude D. Vasser, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before BOUTALL, SCHOTT and MORIAL, JJ.


MORIAL, Judge.

Avondale Shipyards, Inc., appeal a judgment of the district court awarding total and permanent disability benefits to Cleveland Carter.

Avondale first contends that plaintiff has failed to establish that he was disabled as a result of an accident within the meaning of the Louisiana Workmen's Compensation Act, LSA-R.S. 23:1021 et seq., and second that plaintiff has established no causal relationship between the disability incurred and the alleged...

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