Smith v. Brown Paper Mill Co., Inc.

Charles H. Smith brings this action against his employer, Brown Paper Mill Company, Incorporated, claiming compensation for four hundred seven-day weeks at $9.10 per week, and $200 medical expenses, under the provisions of Act 20 of 1914, as amended; and, in the alternative, damages in the sum of $35,000 under article 2315 of the Civil Code. He alleges that while in the course of his employment, he was compelled by the order of defendant to submit to an injection of typhoid serum in the left arm, by a trained nurse in the employ of defendant; that as a direct result of the inoculation his…