Carlino v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

ODOM, Justice.

This is a suit for compensation brought against defendant, the insurer of the City of Alexandria, under Section 8, Subsection 1, Paragraph (b), of Act No. 20 of 1914, as finally amended by Act No. 242 of 1928, p. 357, which reads as follows:

“(b) For injury producing permanent total disability to do work of any reasonable character, sixty-five per centum of wages during the period of disability, not, however, beyond four hundred weeks.”

Counsel for plaintiff, the relator here, has concisely stated the cause of action in Paragraph 1 of his application to this court for writs, which…