Terry v. Sparco Oil Corporation

MILLS, Judge.

This suit is brought under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (No. 20 of 1914, as amended) to recover of defendant and its insurer $10.40 weekly for a period not to exceed 400 weeks and $250 medical expenses, for injuries sustained, in the course of plaintiff’s’ employment at the oil company’s plant in Shreveport, on May 25, 1932, by being struck on the head by a falling Stillson wrench.

The facts as we find them are that plaintiff, while hurrying under a scaffold about ten feet high, was struck a glancing blow on the left side of the head near the crown, by the handle of a 48…