Ashcraft v. Louisiana Central Lumber Co.

On October 15, 1925, the plaintiff brought this action to recover compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act (Act 20 of 1914 and amendments) for injuries alleged to have been received while in defendant’s employment, etc., and to have caused total disability to do work of any reasonable character.

*113He alleges that in the month of September, 1917, while he was engaged in his employment, master mechanic and superintendent of defendant’s machine shops, and while attempting to correct defects in a welding ■ machine, the acetylene tank exploded, causing him to receive fractures of the face,…