Rhodus v. American Employers Ins. Co.

This is a suit under the Workmen's Compensation Act, Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended, wherein it is alleged that plaintiff (a Negro about 56 years old) was employed as janitor at Louisiana State University on October 30, 1940, and for many years prior thereto, and that on the aforesaid date, while carrying a trunk up a stairway into the attic of Parker Hall, he sustained a strain which caused a potential right inguinal hernia to become strangulated; that the strangulated hernia necessitated a radical operation, performed at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, on November 1, 1940; that to…