Gardner v. Southern Kraft Corporation

HAMITER, Judge.

Compensation as for total and permanent disability is asked by plaintiff in this suit which he instituted under the provisions of the Louisiana Employers’ Liability Act, Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended.

It is plaintiff’s contention that he suffered an accident' on August 31, 1935, while cleaning out a lime burner of defendant corporation, in that he inhaled a large quantity of lime dust; and that such inhalation aggravated and caused to flare up the partially active tuberculosis which he had previously contracted as an employee of defendant and then possessed, and resulted in his…