Townley v. Williams

Plaintiff instituted this suit seeking to recover compensation. He alleged that while working as a carpenter for W. Horace Williams Company at Camp Claiborne, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, on January 11, 1941, and while carrying on his shoulder two pieces of lumber 2" x 4" and 18 feet long, he hung his toe under a wire which caused him to stumble and fall face forward; that the accident caused the tissues, muscles and ligaments of both sides of his lower abdomen to be impaired and caused a hernia on both sides of said abdomen, resulting in total and permanent disability.

Defendants deny that…