Ingram v. Meridian Lumber Co.

LE BLANC, Judge.

Plaintiff was employed as a millwright in the defendant’s sawmill at Aleo .in Vernon parish. On the morning of May 20, 1935, while attending to part of his duties which required him to mount a scaffold some nineteen feet high in order to repair a chain, the scaffold gave way and he fell with it. In the fall he sustained a severe break of the left leg between the hip and knee. The attempt to set the fracture was fraught with some difficulty and the result was not'nearly as successful as might have been desired. There is but little dispute that due to an overlapping of the…