Guderian v. Sterling Sugar & Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
■ Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Percy Saint, Judge. i Suit under the Employers’ Liability Act by August Guderian against the Sterling Sugar & Railway Company, Limited, for compensation for injuries. Compensation was awarded, and the employer appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtOverton, J.
Plaintiff instituted this suit under the Employers’ Liability Act (Act No. 20 of 1914) to recover judgment against defendant for $16.75 a week, beginning April 23, 1919. for a period of 400 weeks, for injury which he alleges he received from an accident, which he contends occurred in the course of his employment and arose out of it.
The injury consists in the loss of an eye. This loss has rendered him totally blind, for the reason that some years before he was so unfortunate as to have lost the other. He therefore alleges that he is totally and permanently incapacitated to work, and sues for…
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