Frugia v. Calcasieu Oil Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation as for total and permanent disability arising out of a hernia said to have been sustained by plaintiff while working in the course and scope of his employment with the defendant company.

Plaintiff worked for the Vacuum and Magnolia Oil Companies from -1927 to 1931, and thereafter for the Calcasieu Oil Company, Inc., defendant herein, when he claims to have suffered the hernia for which he is demanding compensation.

His demand was rejected in the lower court, and he has appealed.

Dr. R. G. Holcombe who was examining physician for the Vacuum and…