Cook v. M. J. Walsh Boiler Scaling Co.

At about 7:15 o'clock on the morning of February 8, 1946, the plaintiff, Clifford C. Cook, was employed by the M. J. Walsh Boiler Scaling Company, Inc. At that time Cook was totally blind in his left eye. The business in which the said corporation was engaged and the work which Cook was employed to perform were admittedly within the contemplation of the Louisiana Workmen's Compensation Law, — Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended. At about 8:00 o'clock Cook went to work loading ship stores on a wharf alongside the Mississippi River. In his petition he alleges that a little later on that morning his…