Manuel v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Ins.

TATE, Judge.

The trial court held that the plaintiff-employee is entitled to workmen’s compensation benefits for total and permanent disability. An appeal from such judgment is taken by the plaintiff’s employer and the latter’s compensation insurer, who were joined as defendants. The plaintiff-employee answers the appeal, claiming that he is additionally entitled to statutory penalties because of the defendant insurer’s arbitrary failure to pay compensation due.

Plaintiff was a share tenant on the defendant-employer’s farm. However, such defendant also occasionally employed the plaintiff,…