Chance v. T. J. Moss Tie Co.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff on August 14, 1945. The petition alleges that on September 2, 1944, while employed as an "edgeman" by T. J. Moss Tie Co., Inc., at its mill in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, plaintiff met with an accident which rendered him permanently and totally disabled from doing work of any reasonable character, and that he is entitled to workman's compensation for four hundred weeks at the rate of $18.72 per week. The suit was directed against the tie company and its insurance carrier, Consolidated Underwriters.

These defendants answered, denying that plaintiff was in…