Parker v. Leton Gin Co.

The plaintiff brings this suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act to recover compensation for 109 weeks, alleging that he was injured while operating a gin owned by the defendant.

He claims total disability for nine weeks and compensation for 100 weeks additional.

The defense is a general denial coupled with the special plea that plaintiff was employed to operate the presses and that it was no part of his duty to operate the ginstand at which he was injured and that, therefore, his injury did not arise in the scope of his employment.

There was judgment in the District Court rejecting…