Grigsby v. Texas Co.

The plaintiff, who was injured while in the employ of defendant, brought suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended) for $20 per week for 400 weeks, alleging that, on January 28, 1928, while working for defendant putting dressing on a belt in the engine room, the sleeve of his right arm was caught on a clamp of moving belt, pulling him into a clutch or wheel, cutting the right side of his head to the skull, seriously and permanently scarring and impairing the nerves and tissues of the right side of his face, seriously and permanently injuring his brain, the sight…