Cook v. International Paper Co.

Plaintiff, on July 28, 1948, filed suit seeking four hundred weeks compensation at $20 per week, allegedly due as the result of an accident occurring on July 30, 1946 while plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant corporation.

Plaintiff's injury was to his shoulder and foot. The petition set forth that recovery was complete from the shoulder injury but that he suffered some discomfort from soreness to his foot which, however, did not "prevent petitioner from working until on or about December 20, 1947," when the injury became disabling and that he had been unable to work since that date;…