Burns v. American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

The plaintiff, William R. Burns, instituted this action for workmen’s compensation *279benefits allegedly owed him by the defendants as a result of an accident on July 10, 1969. The trial court rejected the plaintiff’s demands at his cost, and the plaintiff appealed.

At the time of the accident, the plaintiff was employed as a laborer by Bobby George to assist him (George) in cutting, loading, and delivering pulpwood to the Kraft Paper Mill in Pineville, Louisiana. George owned the equipment used to cut and load the wood and the truck which hauled the wood to the mill. George sold the…