Arden v. Hutch Manufacturing Co.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Chief Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case Plaintiff Ronnie Arden appeals from the denial of benefits for a permanent mental disability relating to his work as an over-the-road truck driver. The trial court found that Plaintiff suffered from “acute psychosis produced by amphetamines,” and that he had not established “an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment.”

When employed by Defendant in 1985, Plaintiff had been regularly employed as a long haul driver for 14 years. Defendant Hutch Manufacturing Company is primarily a maker of building…