Stewart v. Brown Paper Mill Co.

Defendant has appealed from a judgment of the District Court in and for Ouachita Parish which set aside a compromise settlement for workmen's compensation in which compromise plaintiff herein was paid $350. The lower court's judgment awarded plaintiff $11.57 per week during disability not to exceed 300 weeks, payments to begin on May 15, 1940, less the $350 paid by defendant under the compromise judgment on August 12, 1940, with legal interest on each payment from maturity until paid. The judgment also fixed the fees of the expert witnesses and taxed them as costs. Plaintiff has answered the…