Keene v. Carraway & McDougald Lumber Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation in which plaintiff claimed total permanent disability resulting from an accidental injury sustained while in the course and scope of his employment. After trial there was judgment in favor of the defendant-employer rejecting plaintiff’s demands, from which plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff was employed as a winch truck operator by Carraway & McDougald Lumber company, a commercial partnership composed of Thomas Carraway and Allen T. McDougald, which operated a sawmill near the Town of Jena in LaSalle Parish. The alleged accident and injury occurred…