Hicks v. Royal Indemnity Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation suit plaintiff claims to be totally and permanently disabled. In his original petition he averred that his disability was caused by the rupture of an intervertebral disc. More than two years later, the case not having been tried in the District Court, he amended his petition reaffirming his original allegations except insofar as they might be “in conflict with this supplemental petition,” and in his supplemental petition averred that he was “nervous, neurotic and emotionally upset,” and that his disability resulted from traumatic hysteria.

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