Pixley v. Employers' Mutual Liability Insurance

GLADNEY, Judge.

Plaintiff’s suit for the recovery of workmen’s compensation alleges that while she was employed by James “Buck” Horton she sustained an accident which aggravated a pre-existing cancerous condition of the breast and as a consequence she became disabled. Horton and the workmen’s compensation insurer, the defendants herein, oppose this action by contending plaintiff’s employment was not covered by the Louisiana workmen’s compensation act, but if so determined, there is no causal relationship between the accident and the disability. After trial judgment was rendered in favor of…