Hunter v. Louisiana Ice & Utilities Co.

Plaintiff, was employed to work for defendant and while so employed a co-laborer upset a bucket of hot tar on the back of his hand, inflicting a severe burn. The injury resulting from the burn instantly caused total disability to perform labor of a reasonabe character. He brings this suit to recover compensation .based upon 65 per cent of his wages for the period of his disability, not exceeding four hundred weeks.

The defense is that plaintiff received only slight injuries and had so far recovered at the time of the filing of this suit that he was able to do manual labor such as he was…