Abelleira v. Johnson Iron Works Co.

This is a suit by an injured employee to recover compensation under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Act No. 20 of 1914, § 8, as amended by Act No. 242 of 1928).

*909The defendant admits that plaintiff was in its employ and engaged in a hazardous occupation; that he was accidentally injured on June 25, 1930, by a heavy piece of iron falling on his right foot, and that he was paid compensation, at the rate of $12.65 per week for 23 weeks, but avers that he was discharged as cured of the injury on December 17, 1930, and that the present disability complained of has no causal…