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DALTON FIRE DEPARTMENT v. GOSSAGE

74269.

182 Ga. App. 257 (1987)

355 S.E.2d 459

DALTON FIRE DEPARTMENT et al. v. GOSSAGE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied March 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann B. Conn, John A. Ferguson, Jr., for appellants.

Don L. Hartman, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

The appellee, Prater Gossage, was employed by the City of Dalton Fire Department. On January 31, 1985, while performing a prefire inspection of a warehouse storing dyestuffs and chemicals, he sneezed. In pursuing this workers' compensation claim, Gossage contended that he sneezed because of a cold he had contracted a few days earlier and because of the respiratory irritants at the pre-fire inspection site, and that this sneeze caused a herniation...

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