Horn v. Louisiana Highway Commission

Plaintiff sued for compensation in the amount of $15.60 per week for a period not to exceed four hundred weeks, alleging that he was in the employ qf the Louisiana Highway Commission, and while doing the work he was employed to do, that is digging, a ditch, that the ditch caved in on him and permanently injured him. The ditch was nine feet, six inches deep and about three feet wide when it caved in, burying the plaintiff all but his face. He was confined to his bed for about one month and continued under the care of his doctor up to time of trial. He claims to be totally permanently injured…