Evans v. Louisiana Gas & Fuel Co.

This action is brought under the Employers’ Liability Act (Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended) for the recovery of compensation in the sum of $8,000, payable in four hundred weekly installments of $20 each, less credits aggregating $409.50. •

The plaintiff’ was working for the defendant company as telephone lineman, at a salary of $130 per month, at the time he was injured. His duties were to inspect, repair, and maintain the telephone lines operated by the defendant. One of these lines extended from Shreveport, in Caddo parish, to Cotton Valley, in Webster parish. On the day of his injury,…