Carter v. Colfax Lumber & Creosoting Co.

Plaintiff brings this "suit for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, as finally amended by Act 85 of 1926. He alleges that the Colfax Lumber and Creosoting Company owns and operates a sawmill 'at Colfax, Louisiana, and that it employed Tom, Matkins to cut and deliver on the railroad cars at or near Clarence station, in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, certain logs belonging to them, at a stipulated price per thousand feet; that he was employed by the said Matkins to assist in the cutting and loading said logs on the railroad, and that, while so employed, he suffered an injury to…