Eisel v. Caddo Transfer & Warehouse Co.

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for compensation at the rate of $18 per week during disability not exceeding 400 weeks for an .injury suffered by plaintiff on March 31, 1924, resulting from a fall of about nine feet in which plaintiff landed in a sitting position on a cement floor causing an injury close to the base of the brain and the lower part of the spine.

Defendant denied liability and alleged that it had paid plaintiff more than $200 and furnished him with medical attention.

On these issues the case was tried and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $18…