Jones v. Frost Lumber Industries, Inc.

WEBB, J.,

Plaintiff filed this suit on February 28, 1928, against defendant, his former employer, to recover compensation for permanent total disability to do work of any reasonable character, alleged to have resulted from an accidental injury *255sustained by plaintiff on October 13th, 1927, while he was engaged in the scope of his employment with defendant.

He alleged in substance that, a heavy plank had fallen upon him injuring his left leg, ankle and foot, and puncturing or tearing the walls of his abdomen, causing a traumatic hernia; that soon after he was injured defendant became aware of the…