Sexton v. Querbes

This is a suit for $1042.00, payable in weekly installments of $18.00 per week, under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Louisiana, for injury to plaintiff’s thumb and two fingers of his right hand.

Defendant denied liability on the ground that plaintiff claimed compensation for temporary total 'disability from February 3, 1923, to June 4, 1923, four months, and that defendant paid him for same the full amount claimed, $308.00, and took his receipt in full settlement for the injury, the receipt reading in part as follows:

“By this the employee acknowledges to have received the full amount due…