Hinson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

The trial judge awarded benefits to the plaintiff for total and permanent disability resulting from injuries which she received in an accident arising out of and in the course of her employment on July 26, 1980, when she fell from a ladder while attempt ing to procure some fabric for sale to a customer in the defendant’s store. The defendant employer has appealed complaining that the trial court erred in finding that there was any causal connection between the accident and a rheumatoid arthritic condition which the plaintiff has suffered in her hands since the accident…