Faircloth v. Speights

GLADNEY, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment rejecting his demands for workmen’s compensation.

William IT. Faircloth was employed as a motor mechanic for the defendant, Deb Speights, the operator of a used car lot known as Caddo Auto Sales, in the City of Shreveport, Louisiana. On October 27, 1956, while engaged in work in the course and scope of his employment with Speights, the automobile in which plaintiff was riding was struck by a trolley car and plaintiff allegedly sustained a compensable injury to his back. More specifically, it is claimed he sustained a strain of the muscles on…