Hicks v. Continental Casualty Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation in which plaintiff, Elige Hicks, claims total permanent disability and seeks recovery from his employer and the insurer as parties defendant. From judgment rejecting his demands plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff, a negro laborer 65 years of age, while employed as a brick tender for W. A. Gray Construction Company, fell from a scaffold located on a construction job in Bossier City, Louisiana, on March 16, 1953, sustaining injuries which he claims to have 'been permanently and totally disabling. The specific injuries are set forth in plaintiff’s…