Bailey v. Gifford Sand & Gravel Co.

This suit is for compensation under Act No. 20 of 1914 and amendments, not including Act No. 85 of 1926.

Plaintiff, while at work for defendant, fell a distance of some six or eight feet, striking his head against a piece of iron which passed through the left ear and penetrated the skull in front óf and above the ear.

The brain itself was punctured and a small portion of the brain tissue escaped through the opening. Surgeons removed fragments of the skull and reunited the tissues. There was left in the skull a hole about the size of a fifty-cent piece. The outer skin has healed over the wound,…