Weston v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

AINSWORTH, District Judge.

Plaintiff, alleging total and permanent disability, has brought suit for workmen’s compensation and medical benefits against the insurer of Frank L. Richardson under a policy of compensation insurance covering all of his operations within Louisiana and Mississippi.

On January 28, 1960, plaintiff was working as a laborer engaged in cutting *769pulpwood and transporting it from timberland owned by Houston Stafford to the loading ramp of Richardson, in a truck owned by Lee Andrews, an elderly, illiterate, Negro, who for many years has worked in the pulpwood industry, cutting…