Hammons v. Edwards

Roy A. Hammons, a young man, about twenty-two years of age, while in the employ of defendants, .Kinman & Edwards, who were operating a sawmill, struck his head against a rafter and about five days thereafter he became ill and his illness reached an alarming stage on the second day when he was taken to the State Hospital at Shreveport where he died after about twelve days.

This action was brought by the parents of the deceased to recover compensation under Act 20 of 1914, the Employers’ Liability Law, and defendants appeal from a .judgment rendered against them for compensation at the rate of…