Wilkinson v. Dubach Mill Co.

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This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The defendant company owns and operates a mill at Dubach, Louisiana. Plaintiff alleges that he was employed by defendant company as a trucker at a weekly wage of $11.70. That his duty was to truck lumber, cross-ties etc., from the saw along a platform, and that another employee, engaged in similar work, allowed a cross-tie to fall from his truck against plaintiff, knocking him off the platform to the ground about twenty feet below, that his left hip was dislocated, his left side was bruised, his left foot was broken, and his left ankle…