Carroll v. International Paper Co.

OVERTON, J;

Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant on February 9, 1928, as a boiler maker’s helper, at defendant’s mill in Bastrop. While engaged in performing his duties, and while sitting on a scaffold bucking rivets, a spark flew from a red hot rivet, hitting him on the nose and burning it. Plaintiff was treated by the company’s physician once a week from the time of the injury until August 18,1928, when he, in company with the physician, consulted, at the latter’s suggestion, a specialist in Monroe. The examination in Monroe resulted in both the company’s physician and the specialist…