Ludd v. Van Hoose

This appeal is by plaintiff from a judgment rejecting his demands for compensation for disability alleged to have resulted from an injury received while at work for the defendant, Van Hoose, at a cotton gin. Plaintiff originally asked for compensation for three hundred weeks, but before this court his counsel ask for only eighteen weeks, plus $143 for hospital and surgical expenses.

The facts briefly stated are that the plaintiff, while at work for defendant Van Hoose on September 7, 1929, while engaged with another colored man in loading a bale of cotton onto a truck, strained himself to such…