MATTHEWS v. SUN BANK OF ST. LUCIE

No. AF-79.

414 So.2d 567 (1982)

Erma MATTHEWS, Appellant, v. SUN BANK OF ST. LUCIE, and the Hartford Group, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied June 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Kupfer of Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles Desmond Crowley, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


SHAW, Judge.

Claimant, at the time of her employment, suffered from a pre-existing back disease that was susceptible to aggravation. In the course of employment, she injured or aggravated her back by lifting and tossing twenty-five pound bags of coins into a small safe beneath her teller's window, from a kneeling position. The deputy found that this injury was noncompensable, because it could as well have occurred in her nonemployment life and was routine to her job...

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