Beard v. Coal Operators Cas. Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a compensation suit in which plaintiff claims permanent and total disa*256bility resulting from injuries sustained in an accident while in the course and scope of his employment. After trial there was judgment in favor of plaintiff as prayed, from which defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff, a carpenter foreman employed by the State Park Commission, an agency of the State of Louisiana, was injured on January 26, 1951, when he was involved in an automobile wreck. At the time plaintiff was driving a truck, belonging to his employer, returning home after work when, in the effort to…