Sawyer v. Weber-King Mfg. Co.

LeBLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation in which the plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of $8.77 per week for a period not to exceed four hundred weeks, as compensation for disability growing out of an accidental injury sustained by him while in the course and scope of his employment by the defendant. To the plaintiff’s petition the defendant filed first a plea of prematurity based under Subdivision 1(B) of Section 18 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as amended by Act No. 85 of 1926, That section provides in effect that unless in the verified complaint filed by the employee or his…