Richardson v. Weitz Co.

REID, Judge.

Plaintiff Marvin L. Richardson filed this suit for workman’s compensation benefits against his former employer The Weitz Company and its compensation insurer Employers Mutual Casualty Company as a result of an accident which occurred on November 23, 1962.

Plaintiff was working as a structural carpenter for Weitz Company and slipped while working on a scaffold and fell to the concrete floor below sustaining injuries to his seventh thoracic vertebra and other bruises and contusions including a laceration of his scalp.

Both defendants answered and admit amicable demand but deny the…