Clifton v. Glassell-Taylor Co.

Plaintiff sued his employer, Glassell-Taylor Company, a commercial copartnership, and its insurer, Saint Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, to recover workmen's compensation at the rate of $20 per week for 400 weeks and for medical expenses in the sum of $250. He alleges that on October 24, 1942, while driving a large truck of his employer, on the highway near the village of Montgomery, in Grant Parish, Louisiana, it was violently struck on its front end by another motor vehicle; that the impact caused the truck to veer to its left, leave the highway and turn over in a…