Bryant v. Slidell Memorial Hospital

BLANCHE, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee, Mrs. Lessie Bryant, a nurse’s aid employed by the Slidell Memorial Hospital, instituted suit against her employer and its insurer, The Travelers Insurance Company, for total and permanent workmen’s compensation benefits. The trial court found the plaintiff to be totally and permanently disabled and granted judgment in her favor for $26.39 per week for a period of 400 weeks. From the judgment the defendants have appealed and assigned as error the trial judge’s finding that plaintiff sustained the burden of proof in establishing the accident and alternatively…