Jack Cornelius Shop v. Pate

MONROE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a post-judgment order in a workmen’s compensation case finding the employer in default of past payments for permanent total disability and ordering that future payments be made in a lump sum.

This case has a complicated post-judgment procedural history. In June 1991, after ore tenus hearings, the trial court entered a final judgment, finding that the employee, John Pate, was permanently and totally disabled. In July 1991, the employer, Jack Cornelius Shop, d/b/a Crossroads Equipment (Crossroads), filed a motion for a new trial or, in the alternative, to…