Dillard v. Thompson

PORTERIE, District Judge.

We have before us the motion for a summary judgment by the defendants under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 56 (c), 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c.

The facts are that the plaintiff, after having been settled under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., in June, 1944, receiving the sum of $2500, has filed a complaint alleging that his case falls under the state compensation law, and that an unlawful lump sum settlement has been made; that he is now entitled under the Louisiana statute, Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended to $20 per week…