Deshotels v. Phoenix Insurance

MILLER, Judge.

Willie Deshotels appealed the trial court decision that he was not entitled to any weekly workmen’s compensation. We affirm.

On February 12, 1968 plaintiff slipped and struck his right knee on a concrete beam. He reported to a first aid station and then left the job and sought treatment from his family physician, Dr. Harold J. Sabatier of Jennings. Dr. Sabatier found a swelling over the knee cap that was red, hot, and very tender, and contained fluid. Dr. Sabatier used a local anesthetic and aspirated about five ccs of a bloody, serous fluid from the knee. He then injected a half…