55 So. 2d 21 - Ike v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"This case is very similar to the case of Knox v. Ethyl Corp., La.App., 53 So.2d 443 and the case of Collins v. Permanente Metals Corporation, La.App., 42 So.2d 324 . In both of these cases it was concluded by the trial courts and by our court that the plaintiff was suffering from a small inguinal hernia but as concluded by the trial judge in the case at bar, although it has been recognized that in some cases the testimony of the plaintiff alone, to the effect that he sustained an accident during the course of his employment, would suffice, provided there was sufficient corroborating circumstances to justify the conclusion that in fact an accident did occur, such corroborating circumstances did not appear in the cited cases as well as in the case at bar and to say that the plaintiff suffered an accident as alleged would be merely a guess. In the case at bar, the surrounding circumstances, such as the fact that the physicians who examined plaintiff shortly after his alleged accident failed to find any evidence of trauma, and the further fact that plaintiff failed to complain of any accident until several days after the alleged accident, are more to the effect that no accident occurred, rather than in corroboration of plaintiff's testimony. "”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guilbeaux v. Trinity Universal Insurance Company