Summers v. Woodward, Wight & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; T. C. W. Ellis, Judge. Proceeding by Mrs. Eulah H. Summers under the Workmen’s Compensation Act to obtain compensation for personal injury, opposed by Woodward, Wight & Co., Limited, employer. Compensation awarded, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiff, 32 years of age, was employed by defendant, in June, 1915, under a written contract which was silent in regard to the “Burke-Roberts Employers’ Liability Act,” and in November, following, whilst engaged in the duties of her position, she had occasion to go to the ladies’ dressing room, where she accidentally fell upon the floor and sustained a Colle’s fracture of her left wrist, which fracture, after some temporary attention, was “reduced” (or thought to have been reduced) at one of the infirmaries, and the wrist incased in a plaster cast, where…
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