Brown v. Joseph Rathbone Lbr. Co.

Plaintiff, a timber cutter by occupation, alleges that on December 9, 1926, while in defendant’s employ at its lumber camp near Ponchatoula, La., and in the act of cutting down a large cypress tree, he was struck on the head by a falling branch with the result that the occipital and frontal bone of his skull was fractured; he alleges that he was rendered unconscious by the blow and removed to a hospital in New Orleans, where he was confined to his bed for forty-five days; that his injury caused severe headaches, impairment of vision, stiffness of the neck and pain in moving his head and that…