McClung v. Delta Shipbuilding Co.

Louis A. McClung, plaintiff, brought this suit against his former employer, Delta Shipbuilding Company, Inc., and its insurers, the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company and American Motorists Insurance Company, defendants, for workmen's compensation in the sum of $20 per week for a period of four hundred weeks, claiming he was totally and permanently disabled as a result of severe injuries sustained by him on February 27, 1945, when he injured his back while working in the hold of a ship at defendant's shipyard.

The defendants filed exceptions of no right and no cause of action and a plea…