CELANESE FIBERS CO. v. JOHNSON

Record No. 840598.

326 S.E.2d 687 (1985)

CELANESE FIBERS COMPANY, et al. v. Emily Catherine JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Fain Rutherford, Roanoke (James W. Jennings, Jr., Roanoke, D. Stan Barnhill, Roanoke, Woods, Rogers, Muse, Walker & Thornton, Roanoke, on briefs), for appellants.

John W.L. Craig, II, Radford (Jenkins, Quigley & Craig, Radford, on briefs), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


POFF, Justice.

We granted this appeal to determine whether a workers' compensation award in favor of the claimant was supported by credible evidence.

On June 27, 1983, Emily Catherine Johnson, an employee of Celanese Fibers Company, suffered an injury to her lower back while lifting a loaded trash container. At the hospital, the injury was diagnosed as "[a]ggravation and acute exacerbation of lumbosacral back pain of long-standing degenerative disc disease...

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