Garner v. Avondale Marine Ways, Inc.

LUTHER E. HALL, Judge pro tern.

Plaintiff, Tommie Lee Garner, brought this suit against his employer, Avondale Marine Ways, Inc., seeking workmen’s compensation for total and permanent disability alleging that on or about September 7, 1957 while working in the course and scope of his employment as a rigger or laborer in his employer’s shipyard he received an injury to his back “when a heavy piece of steel dropped from a crane and struck him across the back of his body”. He further alleged by supplemental petition that in addition to his back injuries he sustained “traumatic neurosis, emotional…