Elmore v. Avoyelles Wholesale Grocery Co.

Plaintiff sued to recover judgment against his employer, Avoyelles Wholesale Grocery Company, Ltd., for compensation at the rate of $9.10 per week for 400 weeks on the theory that on June 11, 1941, while performing the duties of his employment he had an accident from which total permanent disability to perform work of any reasonable character resulted. He alleged that near the time to quit work for the day, while carrying sacks of nitrate of soda weighing one hundred pounds each, from his employer's warehouse to a truck, the strain and physical effort incident thereto produced a hernia of…