Butts v. Thomas

Adams, Judge.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. brought suit in the name of its employee Bobby Wayne Butts to recover workers’ compensation benefits paid pursuant to Tennessee law arising out of a car accident involving Butts and Janet Rosser Thomas that occurred in Catoosa County, Georgia. The Superior Court of Catoosa County granted Thomas’s motion for summary judgment, in which Thomas argued that the claim was barred by the statute of limitation. Coca-Cola appeals.

The complaint alleges that Butts, a Coca-Cola employee, was injured on August 18, 2005 while acting within the course and…