Meredith v. Contractors Equipment Co.

AYRES, Judge.

Plaintiff’s appeal in this action for workmen’s compensation concerns the correctness, vel non, of a judgment sustaining a peremptory plea of prescription of two years. Invoked are the provisions of LSA-R.S. 23:1209 which provide, with respect to actions concerning personal injury (including death resulting therefrom) occasioned by accident, that “ * * * in all such cases the claim for payment shall be forever barred unless the proceedings have been begun within two years from the date of the accident.”

*801The record discloses that plaintiff, a mechanic, was employed by the named…