HAWTHORNE v. DEPT. OF AGRIC. & FORESTRY

No. WCA 03-1162.

866 So.2d 347 (2004)

Louis K. HAWTHORNE v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 4, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Forsythe Owens, Jr., Attorney at Law, Harrisonburg, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Louis K. Hawthorne.

Edward M. Campbell, Special Asst. Atty General, Natchitoches, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry.

Court composed of JOHN D. SAUNDERS, JIMMIE C. PETERS, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.


EZELL, Judge.

Louis Hawthorne appeals a judgment from the Office of Workers' Compensation which held that he could return to his former work on a four-wheeler placing traps for boll weevils in fields. We affirm.

FACTS

Hawthorne was hired by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry on March 27, 2000. On April 6, 2000, he broke his left wrist and arm when a bank caved in, causing him and the four-wheeler he was driving to fall, with the...

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