Hammett v. Cities Service Refining Corp.

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit wherein the plaintiff, W. Jeff Hammett, seeks compensation for total permanent disability. The case was previously before this court on an exception of prematurity which we sustained. See 36 So.2d 280. On a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court, however, our decision was reversed. See 216 La. 245, 43 So.2d 596. The case was then tried on the merits and the plaintiff is now appealing from a judgment of the lower court which dismissed his suit.

The injury upon which plaintiff bases his cause of action occurred on July 2, 1946, when he…