Batiste v. Hartford Insurance Co.

COLE, Judge.

Plaintiff, Milton Batiste, appeals a judgment of the trial court which dismissed his suit for workmen’s compensation against Hartford Insurance Company on a motion for summary judgment.

Batiste filed this suit on September 22, 1977, against Hartford Insurance Company and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company seeking benefits for total and permanent disability. He alleged that he injured his back on August 21,1973, while acting in the course and scope of his employment at St. Paul’s School in Covington, when he lifted a steel step on the roof of a building. Batiste also alleged that he…