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FREEMAN v. LUPPES TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC.

No. 2-56146.

227 N.W.2d 143 (1975)

Lynn J. FREEMAN, Appellee, v. LUPPES TRANSPORT COMPANY, INC., Employer, and Federated Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 19, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hopkins, Bump & Huebner, Des Moines, for appellants.

Thomas L. McCullough, Sac City, for appellee.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and RAWLINGS, UHLENHOPP, REYNOLDSON, and HARRIS, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The decision in this workmen's compensation appeal turns on whether the claimant established a causal connection as a matter of law between an injury on April 24, 1970, and subsequent disability.

Claimant Lynn J. Freeman leased his tractor-trailer combination to Luppes Transport Company to haul ammonia. He drove the truck himself. He received a percentage of the revenue which Luppes obtained for each trip. On April 24, 1970, when a wheel...

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