Kinder v. Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal Dist.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a plea of prescription and peremption to a petition for workman's compensation. The petition states that the plaintiff was employed on and prior to August 27, 1942, by the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District as guard, and shed foreman, and that on August 27, 1942, while in the course and scope of his employment, attempting to close a heavy door that was jammed, the said door, upon being loosened, struck plaintiff's right foot near the ankle "inflicting a severe injury upon it."

The petition alleges further that the injury was not believed to…