Synder v. Kolb

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Plaintiff alleges—

“That, on October 4, 1928, at or near Lecomte, in Rapides parish, Louisiana, while your petitioner was working in the employ of W. E. Kolb and Howard Simpson at the rate of $2.50 per day, in the occupation and position of operating a rip-saw, a piece of timber flew off said saw, striking your petitioner’s leg and breaking the same between the knee and body; and that as a result and cause thereof he believes and therefore allegés that he will be wholly unfit for the work for which he is equipped, to-wit; That of saw-milling.