Shelton v. Arnett

BAILES, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. Plaintiff sues his former employer for maximum workmen’s compensation benefits alleged to be due him by reason of an injury he received in a vehicular accident. The employer’s insurer was joined as party defendant. Additionally, plaintiff claims statutory penalties and attorney’s fees on the ground that defendants’ failure to pay workmen’s compensation was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. After trial, the lower court rendered judgment “adjudging the plaintiff to be totally and permanently disabled and awarding him workmen’s…