Whitfield v. E. I. Dupont De Nemours Co.

This is a suit under the Workmen's Compensation Act, Act No. 20 of 1914, wherein in his petition plaintiff alleges that on July 17, 1940, while employed by defendant as a ditcher on a road construction job and while working on said job on said date, at about 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon, in the act of lifting a bridge with fellow employees, he strained or in some way hurt his back. He alleges further that at the time of the accident he told fellow workers of it and that the next day he informed his foreman of its occurrence and that the foreman thereupon sent him to defendant's hospital for…