STATE OF GEORGIA v. PURMORT

54292, 54293.

143 Ga. App. 269 (1977)

238 S.E.2d 268

STATE OF GEORGIA et al. v. PURMORT; and vice versa.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs, II, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Don A. Langham, Deputy Attorney General, Michael J. Bowers, Senior Assistant Attorney General, W. Hensell Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, James H. Weeks, Special Assistant Attorney General, for State of Georgia et al.

Skidmore, Barrett & Tripp, Charles L. Barrett, III, for Purmort.


WEBB, Judge.

1. The administrative law judge in this workmen's compensation case found that claimant sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment when he was attacked and struck in the head by one of his subordinate employees as a result of a reprimand that he had given the employee because of the type work that he was doing. The full board made the same findings, the superior court affirmed, and we do likewise.

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