SPARKS v. MOUNTAIN BREEZE RESTAURANT, ETC.

No. 8110IC483.

286 S.E.2d 575 (1982)

Kenneth Ray SPARKS, Employee, Plaintiff, v. MOUNTAIN BREEZE RESTAURANT AND FISH HOUSE, INC. and/or Ancle Greene, Jeane Greene, Carolyn Greene McKinney and Claude Wayne McKinney d/b/a Ancle Greene Restaurant, Non-Insured, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. D. Bailey, Burnsville, for plaintiff.

Gum & Hillier, P. A. by David R. Hillier, Asheville, for defendants.


WHICHARD, Judge.

Plaintiff (claimant) was a cook in defendants' restaurant. His duties included carrying buckets of grease down steps. On 11 August 1979, while so engaged, plaintiff's foot "hit some grease on the steps and ... jerked." He did not fall, but "[i]t ... gave [him] a quick jerk." At the time he "felt a pain like a bee sting in the lower part of [his] back for just a minute." He proceeded, though, to empty the bucket and to work the remainder of the day...

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