Gaspard v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation proceeding wherein the plaintiff alleges himself to be totally and permanently disabled as the result of a fall which he sustained on or about June 17, 1954, while in the employ of one of the defendants, P. B. Flowers. It is alleged that on the date just mentioned the plaintiff, a carpenter, fell through the floor joists of the building he was working on causing him to suffer “a lumbo sacral strain, fracturing three (3) of petitioner’s ribs, and suffering bilateral inguinal hernia and/or a direct inguinal hernia.” The other defendant, the…