Baker v. Wall Drilling Co.

In June, 1927, the relator was employed by the Wall Drilling Company, a copartnership, as a “rough-neck,” or driller’s helper, in drilling an oil well in the parish of Caldwell at a weekly compensation of $31.59. On June 2, 1927, while engaged in adjusting certain machinery and paraphernalia in the course of his employment, he sustained a traumatic hernia. On September 23, 1927, he instituted suit under the Employers’ Liability Act against his employers and their insurer. Plaintiff alleged that as a result of the hernia he has become permanently totally disabled to do work of any reasonable…