Holden v. Circle Drilling Co.

ELLIS, Judge.

Defendant has appealed from the judgment of the district court awarding plaintiff the maximum rate of compensation per week from February 17, 19S7, for a period not to exceed 300 weeks, under LSA-R.S. 23:1221(1) which provides: “For injury producing temporary total disability to do work of any reasonable character, sixty-five per cent of the wages during the period of disability not beyond three hundred weeks.”

The sole question presented is whether the district court committed manifest error in evaluating of the facts in this case by awarding compensation under LSA-R.S. 23:1221…