Sewell v. W. Horace Williams Co.

This is a compensation suit in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from his former employer, W. Horace Williams Co., and its compensation insurance carrier, American Employers' Insurance Company, compensation at the rate of $17.16 per week, for a period of four hundred weeks.

Plaintiff was engaged by W. Horace Williams Company while that company was constructing Camp Polk near Leesville, Louisiana. His job seems to have been to clear off the grounds preparatory to doing some of the construction work. He was part of a crew using a truck in which to haul the logs and branches of trees from off…