Brown v. J. B. McCrary Co.

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, Act 20 of 1914, as amended by Act 85 of 1926.

The plaintiff was employed by defendants as a common laborer and, while at work in the course of his employment, he sustained an injury to his hand which necessitated amputation between the hand and the elbow. Under paragraph 5, subsection D, Section 8 of the Act, he was entitled to sixty-five per cent of his wages for 150 weeks.

Subsequent to the loss of the hand, plaintiff, represented by his attorney, Eugene Beck, and the defendants presented a joint petition to the Court, under paragraph 9,…