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CYPRESS GARDENS CITRUS PRODUCTS, INC. v. MURCHISON

No. 38806.

240 So.2d 803 (1970)

CYPRESS GARDENS CITRUS PRODUCTS, INC. and Hardware Mutual Casualty Company, Petitioners, v. Lorenzo D. MURCHISON, Employee and the Florida Industrial Commission, an Administrative Agency, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 28, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren C. Rose of Rose & Marlow, Miami, for petitioners.

W.S. Crumbley of Hardee, Ott & Hamilton, Tampa, Patrick H. Mears and J. Franklin Garner, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Gene T. Sellers, Tallahassee, for Special Disability Fund, respondent.

DREW, Justice:

This is a workmen's compensation case. Claimant, a sixty-four-year-old laborer, sustained compensable injuries when he was struck by a fork lift truck in the course of his employment on May 25, 1966. He had previously sustained a back injury with the same employer on September 11, 1964. The first injury, also to the back, was superimposed upon a degenerative disc disease.

The Judge of Industrial Claims found that the injury due to the latest...

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