Dennis v. Fortuna Oil Co.

Plaintiff brings this action under the Employers’ Liability Law to obtain judgment on the basis of permanent total disability to do any work of a reasonable character.

The District Court rejected plaintiff’s demands and he appealed.

The opinion of the district judge is as follows:

“This is a suit arising under the compensation law, in which plaintiff claims compensation for total permanent disability.

“Plaintiff was a helper in a boiler shop of the defendant company, and while en*710gaged in his work, a sliver of steel was drive;} through his neck and lodged back of the throat and remained there. He…