Barnes v. American Can Co.

This is a suit for the maximum amount, of colmpensation, four hundred weeks at twenty dollars ($20.00) per week, a total of eight thousand dollars ($8000.00).

The petition, filed on October 14th, 1924, alleges as follows:(1) Plaint^f, while' employed as a millwright by defendant for forty-eight dollars ($48.00) per week, on October 14th, 1923, fell eight or nine feet from a scaffold, struck his right foot on a fly wheel, fractured and dislocated the bones thereof;(2) He was treated without benefit by defendant’s nurse at the plant for nine days and then on her advice consulted Dr. Nelson,…