Freeman v. Clark

GLADNEY, Judge.

Jessie L. Freeman obtained a judgment for workmen’s compensation as for total and permanent disability from which defendant has appealed. In assigning error and denying liability, appellant contends that Freeman’s employment was not hazardous within contemplation of the Employers’ Liability Act, LSA-R.S. 23:1021 et seq., that he provoked the difficulty which led to his injury and, finally, that his disability resulted from intoxication.

Plaintiff on June 19, 1954, received a stab wound in the left arm with injury to the radial nerve, at which time he was acting in the course and…