Funderburk v. Calcasieu Paper Co.

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

Defendant appeals a district court judgment awarding plaintiff workmen’s compensation benefits for total, permanent disability.

The facts show that plaintiff had been employed as a millwright in defendant’s plant for many years. In December of 1962, while so employed, he sustained a fall which produced serious injuries to his left leg, necessitating his absence from work until July of 1963. At that time he returned to his employment but was able to remain therein for only about five or six weeks before he had to quit again due to the trouble in his leg. He finally returned to…