Legal Opinion
Strickland v. W. Horace Williams Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1956No. 15561PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
The appellant and cross-appellee, plainest below, was an employee of W. Horace Williams Company, Inc. The employer was doing a construction job in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. The appellant was fireman of a boiler at the construction site. He rated his job as being heavy and strenuous. The appel-lee and cross-appellant, his employer, put the job on about the level of that of watchman. On September 9, 1952, while on the job, the appellant accidently sustained a fracture of the patella of his left knee. His leg was in a cast for nine weeks and one day. From the middle of…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by5 opinions
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