Patrick v. Consolidated Underwriters

HARDY, Judge.

This is a compensation claim in which plaintiff sought recovery from defendant, as his employer’s insurer, as for permanent, total disability. After trial there was judgment rejecting plaintiff’s demands, from which he prosecutes this appeal.

On April 21, 1955, while engaged in the performance of his duties as a sawyer in the mill of Rogers & Evans Lumber Company at Converse, in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, plaintiff sustained a severe blow to his skull at a point above the right ear. The accident occurred while plaintiff was attempting to remove a log from the conveyor chain by use…