Trailer Convoys, Inc. v. Holsclaw

It was explained at some length in Terry v. Associated Stone Company, Ky., 334 S.W.2d 926 (1960), and Grimes v. Goodlett and Adams, Ky., 345 S.W.2d 47 (1961), that long before the legislature in 1956 added “traumatic” to the words “personal injury” in KRS 342.005 the court had construed the statute in that manner anyway,1 and yet over a period of more than 30 years between 1926 and 1958 had recognized com-pensability of the following types of injury: (1) Brain hemorrhage following heavy strain, Coleman Mining Co. v. Wicks, 213 Ky. 134, 280 S.W. 936 (1926); (2) Tular-aemia from handling…