Legal Opinion
McKean v. W. Horace Williams Co.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided September 25, 1958No. 7270PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
The claim in suit is made under the Louisiana Workmen’s Compensation Act.1 Plaintiff, a journeyman iron worker, suffered a torn medial meniscus 2 plus chondromalacia 3 of the knee while working over water welding a steel piling supporting a wharf in the Mississippi River4 being repaired by his employer, the defendant assured. The company doctor applied a leg-long cylindrical cast to the leg and sent him back to work the following day where he was again assigned to working over water, welding the piling supporting the wharf. He worked for three weeks with the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Mottet v. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
- Knispel v. Gulf States Utilities Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1932
- Stieffel v. Valentine Sugars, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
- Reed v. Calcasieu Paper CompanySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
- Bronson v. Harris Ice Cream Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Dillon v. Lloyd's of LondonDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1959
- John Sidney McKean v. W. Horace Williams Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- John Sidney McKean v. W. Horace Williams Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- John Sidney McKean v. W. Horace Williams Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960