Pierce v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.

BEER, Judge.

This devolutive appeal involves a claim for maximum disability under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Plaintiff’s petition was filed on November 8, 1968 alleging that a disabling back injury covered by the Act took place on November 11, 1967. Although defendant answered the petition promptly — on December 2, 1968— the matter was not tried in the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court until October 10, 1973. Judgment was rendered on May 7, 1974. The record was filed in this court on November 27, 1974 and the case argued before us on March 7, 1975.

From February 28, 1968, when he…