DeVille v. Travelers Insurance Co.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

The Travelers Insurance Company instituted this proceeding under Louisiana R.S. 23:1331 to modify a judgment granting Alexson DeVille $32.50 a week for four hundred weeks in a workmen’s compensation suit rendered on February 18, 1965, and affirmed by this court on appeal. See Deville v. Travelers Insurance Co., 176 So.2d 824 (La.App.3d Cir. 1965).

*542The original plaintiff, Alexson DeVille, was struck on the head and shoulder by a forty-pound bale of hay dropped from a height of ten to fifteen feet. The blow aggravated a pre-existing asymptomatic arthritio condition and a congenital…