Miller v. Morgan's La. & T. R. R. & S. S. Co.

This is a suit under the Employer’s Liability Act.

Plaintiff alleged that on November 15, 1920, he was working for the Morgan Railroad as brakeman on a train known as the West Local Freight operated between Lafayette and Lake Charles, both in Louisiana; that in the course of his employment he alighted from a car of the train and in so doing put his foot upon a pile of rocks and slipped and sustained a severe contusion of the knee and a permanent injury which entitles him to $18 a week for 300 weeks, subject to a credit of $65 paid to him by the defendant.

By a supplemental petition plaintiff…