Codifer v. Shell Petroleum Corporation

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is the duration of disability suffered by plaintiff, Louis P. Codifer, an injured workman, who brings this suit under the compensation statute (Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended), Codi-fer, a carpenter, forty-one years of age. was employed by' the Shell Petroleum Corporation, defendant herein,_ and was injured on August 12, 1929, while so employed, when a piece of timber fell, striking him on the neck and head. He was paid compensation at the rate of $20 a week from the date of the accident until February 1, 1930, when he was discharged by…