Cahanin v. Lafayette General Hospital

HOOD, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit instituted by Claude Cahanin against Lafayette General Hospital and its insurer, Continental Insurance Company. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of defendants, and plaintiff appealed. We affirm.

Several questions are presented, the principal one being whether plaintiff sustained a disabling injury during the course and scope of his employment.

Plaintiff alleges that he sustained two separate injuries while working as a laborer in the maintenance department of the Lafayette General Hospital. One of those injuries, described as chronic…