Smith v. Commercial Solvents Corporation

The plaintiff in this case is appealing from a judgment of the Fourth District Court rejecting his demands for compensation for not exceeding four hundred weeks. He alleges that he was employed by Commercial Solvents Corporation at the Dixie Ordnance Works near Sterlington, La., as a compressor operator, and that among his duties was that of emptying barrels of used oil and that the barrels contained explosive substances which he believes to have been ammonia and other poisonous gases and that these barrels had been setting in the sun and heated the ammonia and other substances and that gas…