Green v. Coal Operators Casualty Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation in which plaintiff seeks recovery for total, permanent disability from his employer’s insurance carrier. After trial there was judgment rejecting plaintiff’s demands as of nonsuit, from which he brings this appeal. Defendant has answered the appeal praying that plaintiff’s demands be rejected with prejudice.

While engaged in cutting pulpwood on a tract of land in Rapides Parish on March 30, 1954, plaintiff was struck on the head by a small tree which he was engaged in felling. A splinter of wood lodged in plaintiff’s right eye, allegedly causing the…