White v. Louisiana Western Ry. Co.

On the 25th of August, 1921, George W. White, while working as' a brakeman for the defendant railway company, suffered an injury to his head, which incapacitated him for a month. He returned to work then and continued in the employment of the railway company, without any apparent ailment, until the 21st of September, 1929, when he was stricken with an epileptic fit, and a scientific examination revealed that the epilepsy was caused by the injury which had occurred on the 25th of August, 1921. White sued for compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act. The railway company pleaded that the…