Cockrell v. Penrod Drilling Co.

FOURNET, Justice.

This is an action by an employee to recover compensation (subject to a credit for 18 weekly payments) from his em ployer and its insurer for total and permanent disability resulting from an accident that occurred when he lifted certain heavy equipment in the course of his employment, causing a traumatic varicocele of the left spermatic cord.

In their answer the defendants admitted the plaintiff’s employment but denied the occurrence of the alleged accident, contending that the varicocele from which the plaintiff suffers was not traumatic in origin but was due entirely to a…