Hymel v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.

GLADNEY, Judge.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Addie Jean Hymel, instituted this suit for recovery of workmen’s compensation from the insurer of her employer, The Gowen Sanatorium, of Shreveport. After a trial on the merits there was judgment in favor of Employers Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., of Great Britain, rejecting plaintiff’s demands, hence this appeal.

Mrs. Hymel was employed in the capacity of a nurse’s aide or attendant at an institution which administered to elderly patients. The sanatorium consists of seven or eight cottages, a main office building and the kitchen building, none of…