Morgan v. Travelers Ins. Co.

This is a suit for compensation based on an alleged permanent total disability.

Plaintiff was employed as an ordinary laborer by Mills Engineering Construction Company which was engaged in road construction work in the Parish of East Feliciana. He alleges in his petition that on June 1, 1940, while in the actual performance of his duties and in carrying out the instructions of his employer to get down into a hole some four or five feet deep to cut a root which was impeding the progress of the work, while holding himself with one hand on the side of the hole and holding an axe with another…