Bennett v. St. Louis Hotel

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff’s appeal seeks attorney’s fees and immediate exigibility of a judgment for workmen’s compensation benefits.

A judgment of March 10, 1976 awarded $62.40 a week “from June 30, 1975 to date” and “further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff is entitled to future compensation benefits at the rate of $62.40 a week, plus all medical expenses, pending further orders of this court.”

Defendants paid the compensation up to the date of that judgment but did not begin paying the “future compensation benefits” the judgment declared due.

Plaintiff waited silently until May…