Lasyone v. Grant Timber & Manufacturing Co. of Louisiana, Inc.

The plaintiff, a log sawyer, employed by Stell, a contractor under defendant, sues defendant under the workmen’s compensation act for $14.40 per week for 400 weeks, claiming to have been permanently and totally disabled by his leg being cut near the knee in the course of his employment.

Defendant called Stell in warranty.

Both defendant and the warrantor admit that plaintiff received a slight injury by his leg being cut, but deny that said injury disabled him totally or permanently.

Stell pleads, further, that plaintiff was paid, by crediting same on an account due by him, the sum of $87.35 in…