Thomas v. Shippers' Compress & Warehouse Co.

LECHE, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this suit for damages for personal injuries resulting from a blow administered by a trailer attached to defendant’s truck, while crossing the bridge spanning the Seventeenth Street Canal at the head of South Claiborne avenue. Defendant’s answer amounted to a general denial. On the day of the trial, approximately one year after the date the petition was filed, defendant filed a plea of estoppel, alleging that since the time of the injury defendant’s insurer had paid, and plaintiff had accepted, workmen’s compensation in the sum of $20.86; that plaintiff was…