Lindsey v. HA Lott, Inc.

387 So.2d 1091 (1980)

Harrell LINDSEY

v.

H. A. LOTT, INC., Contractors and Engineers.

No. 64999.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 7, 1980.

Sydney B. Nelson, Nelson, Hammons & Johnson, Shreveport, for plaintiff-applicant.

Caldwell Roberts, Mayer, Smith & Roberts, Shreveport, for defendants-respondents.

DIXON, Chief Justice.[*]

On September 20, 1973, while employed by the defendant as a carpenter in the construction of the First National Bank Building in Shreveport, the plaintiff, fifty years old and illiterate, suffered an accidental injury to his right arm when the bit of the thirty-five pound drill…