George v. Lafayette Well Service, Inc.

CULPEPPER, Judge.

Plaintiff seeks workmen’s compensation benefits for total and permanent disability resulting from traumatic neurosis. From an adverse judgment, plaintiff appealed.

The substantial issue is whether plaintiff has sustained his burden of proof that he is suffering from traumatic neurosis.

The accident occurred on July 21, 1965. Plaintiff, a 36-year-old negro male, was working as a common laborer for the defendant, Lafayette Well Service, Inc. He was on his knees scraping paint from a steel deck beneath a steel table. A fellow-worker jokingly squirted him in the back with an air…