Koehring-Southern & American Mutual Insurance Co. v. Burnette

OPINION

McCANLESS, Justice.

Edward L. Burnette filed his petition under the Workmen’s Compensation Law against his employer, Koehring-Southern, and its insurance carrier, American Mutual Insurance Company, on September 10, 1969. He averred that while in the employment of the defendant, he received an average weekly wage in excess of one hundred dollars, that the parties had accepted and were acting under the Work*821men’s Compensation Law, that on April 2, 1969, he had sustained an injury which arose out of and during the course of his employment and that while he was removing a large and heavy…