Grober v. Grace Logging Co.

Plaintiff sued under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Louisiana (Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended) for sixty-five per cent, of his weekly wage for a period of four hundred weeks, beginning October 1,1929, less twenty-eight weeks alleged to have been paid by defendant.

*614He alleged that while in the employ of defendant, as a “swamper,” and when on his way to the place of work in the woods, the mule which he was riding stumbled and fell, throwing plaintiff to the ground, thereby injuring his back, backbone, ligaments, muscles, nerves, joints, shoulder, and hip, all on the left side of his body, and…