HERRIN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. COTHREN

No. 34270.

180 So.2d 338 (1965)

HERRIN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY and Southwestern Claims Adjustment Company, Petitioners and Cross-Respondents, v. Fred COTHREN, Respondent and Cross-Petitioner, and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 17, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howell, Kirby, Montgomery & Sands, Jacksonville, for petitioners and cross-respondents.

Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay and B.T. Miller, Jacksonville, for respondent and cross-petitioner.

Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondent.


THOMAS, Justice.

The petitioner, a self-insured employer, is unhappy about the order of the Full Commission affirming one of the deputy commissioner entered 16 July 1964.

The claimant, Fred Cothren, now respondent, was employed to drive trucks and handle freight. During his service he had undergone some back injuries. Finally on 28 October 1963 while in the course of his employment he injured his low back as he moved a 450-pound crate. The employer accepted...

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