Cage v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

McBRIDE, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. On May IS, 1957, during the scope and course of his employment as laborer with Southern Scrap Material Co., Ltd., plaintiff met with an accident when a large bar of iron fell upon his left foot. He now claims of the employer’s insurer workmen’s compensation at the weekly rate of $35 for a period not to exceed 400 weeks (less a credit of 22 weeks at the rate of $28.59), plus medical expenses, penalties under LSA-R.S. 22:658, and a reasonable fee for his attorney. Plaintiff averred in his original petition filed Januar}' 6, 1958, that the…