Falgoust v. Maryland Casualty Co.

A rehearing has been applied for by both parties. Defendant, Maryland Casualty Company, complains that we erred in computing the weekly compensation to which plaintiff is entitled to be the sum of $12.19 per week and argues that we should have fixed it at the sum of $6.50 per week by using the maximum of $20 as a basis for the computation rather than the weekly wages of $50, which the plaintiff was earning at the time of the accident. In support of this proposition, defendant cites, in addition to Fulmer v. McDade Gin Co., La. App., 142 So. 733 (which was cited and disapproved in our original…