McLain v. National Mut. Casualty Co.

The defendant appeals from a judgment of the district court awarding plaintiff compensation at the rate of $19.50 per week, for a period not to exceed four hundred (400) weeks, beginning February 6, 1944.

Prior to November 8, 1937, the plaintiff owned and operated a saw mill and shingle mill in Grant Parish, near Pollock. On that date he made a dation en paiement of apparently all the property he then owned, in payment of an alleged debt due to his wife. After this transfer his wife continued the operation of the mills on her own account, and appears to have been fairly successful.

Plaintiff is…