Ashworth v. Calcasieu Paper Co.

TATE, Judge.

Plaintiff Ashworth was held totally and permanently disabled by the District Court by reason of a knee injury. He waIs awarded 400 weeks workmen’s compensa*682tion benefits at the rate of $28.92 per week, conditioned upon his accepting an operation tendered by defendant employer, which allegedly will correct the disability resulting from the ruptured or torn medial (inside) semi-lunar cartilage (sometimes called the medial meniscus) of his right knee.

Ashworth devolutively appealed from this judgment in his favor, requesting that it be amended to hold that his present disability also…