Employers Insurance Co. of Alabama v. Heath

COOPER, Justice.

OPINION

This is a workmen’s compensation action in which the employer’s insurance carrier appeals from an adverse judgment rendered in the Chancery Court of Obion County. The employee, Vernon C. Heath, was employed as a furniture route salesman and collector and, as such, was required to deliver and repossess furniture. In December, 1973, Mr. Heath injured his back while loading a sofa in the course and scope of his employment. Treatment of the injury required surgery to remove the disc in the L-5 interspace. The chancellor found that Mr. Heath had sustained a sixty percent…