Dixon v. Eula Lumber Co.

Willie Dixon, a negro man about 34 years old, employed by Gulf Lum*207ber Company as blacksmith’s helper, alleges that, while helping defendant’s blacksmith carry a heavy piece pf iron, he stumbled and fell, straining and injuring himself, producing hernia. That his injury renders him a permanent total disability to do work of any reasonable character. He claims 65 per cent of his daily wage of $8.25 per day for four hundred weeks. Defendant admits that plaintiff was in its employment as blacksmith’s helper and received wages as alleged, but denies that plaintiff received the injury while in his…