Lay v. Pugh

Plaintiff brings this suit for compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act, Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended.

He alleges that he was injured in his right eye, the injury causing a total loss of that eye, while he was performing his duties as a carpenter in the repairing and changing the style of a building owned by Joseph Pugh, and situated in the town of Mandeville; that Augustus Smith, acting as agent, employed him to do the work for Pugh; that although Pugh has not actually denied liability he has not been able to collect the compensation he claims, and therefore asks the intervention of…