Powell v. American Employers Ins. Co.

Plaintiff brings this suit for compensation against the insurer of his employer, alleging permanent total disability resulting from an accident suffered on June 18, 1941, while in the employ of the Louisiana Tractor and Machinery Company.

According to the record, the principal employment of plaintiff, a colored man, who lived in Monroe, Louisiana, was the performance of odd jobs as chauffeur and yard man for a number of families of the city. On the morning of June 18, 1941, plaintiff was idling about Five Points in the City of Monroe, with a companion by the name of McCoy, when a truck driver…