Rhodes v. Keasby-Mattison Co.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Philip Rhodes, a common laborer, instituted this suit on October 27, 1958, against the defendants, his former employer, Keasby-Mattison Company, and its compensation insurer, American Mutual Liability Insurance Company, endeavoring to recover the sum of $35 per week for 400 weeks for total and permanent disability resulting from an inguinal hernia incurred on or about August 9, 1956, while lifting and pushing a stack of roofing shingles.

*751Defendants pleaded the exceptions of no right or cause of action, vagueness, lis pendens, and res judicata based on the judgment in…