Newell v. New Orleans Stevedoring Co.

REGAN, Judge.

The plaintiff, Pordora Newell, filed this suit against the defendants, New Orleans Stevedoring Company and the Employers National Insurance Company, its insurer, endeavoring to recover compensation for total and permanent disability which he asserted was the result of impaired vision caused when he was struck on the side of his face near the right eye by a cable.

The defendants answered and simply denied that the plaintiff was entitled to recover workmen’s compensation since he did not incur any permanent injury to his right eye or to any other part of his body.

Following a trial…