Rindahl v. Brighton Wood Farms, Inc.

SIMONETT, Justice.

We conclude a finding by the compensation judge (affirmed by a divided Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals) that an employee’s depression was caused by her work-related injury is manifestly contrary to the evidence and reverse the compensation award based thereon.

In early 1980, employee Deborah Rin-dahl, age 20, was living with her boyfriend and taking a vocational school course on horse care and barn management. On April 27, 1980, while interning at Brighton Wood Farms, she fell from a hayloft, landing on her feet, fracturing her lower left tibia and her right heel bone.…