Gibson v. Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania

AYRES, Judge.

This is an action under the Workmen’s Compensation Statute, LSA-R.S. 23:1021 et seq., wherein plaintiff seeks to recover of his employer’s insurer compensation for total and permanent disability on account of accidental injuries allegedly sustained in the course and scope of his employment on February 27, 1961.

While engaged in removing paint and rust from a used lawn mower by means of a portable electric sander, plaintiff claims a foreign substance got in his left eye, causing a loss of vision. The defense is that plaintiff was not involved in an accident; nor did he receive…