Bolden v. Plant Line Stevedoring Co.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

Plaintiff, a longshoreman, brought this suit against his employer for workmen’s compensation at the maximum rate of $20 per week for a period of 22 ^eek?, subject to a credit of $10.20 per week paid him during fifteen weeks. The defendant resisted • plaintiff’s demand upon three grounds:(1) The prescription of one year under section 31 of the Compensation Law.(2) No further compensation is due plaintiff under subsection 3 of section 8 of Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended; and,(3) If said subsection 3 of section 8 of the Compensation Act, as amended, be construed so as to…