Fields v. General Casualty Co. of America

McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation. Plaintiff was employed as a laborer by Mrs. Charles J. Hebert, who operates a retail feed and seed business in the city of Baton Rouge under the name of Dayton Feed and Seed Store. Plaintiff’s duties-were to keep -the store clean and load sacks-of feed on the cars or trucks of customers of the store. Pie claims that he suffered a hernia on May 6, 1946, when he picked up a sack of feed to load it on a one-half ton truck; that an unsuccessful operation was performed and that,- as a consequence, he is totally permanently disabled to do…