Atkins v. State, Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles

ERVIN, Judge.

Appellant Atkins filed a workmen’s compensation claim against both the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and the Florida Department of Military Affairs after he ruptured an intervertebral disc while lifting a water tank in the course of his duties at the Florida National Guard summer camp at Camp Blanding, Florida, in 1977, alleging he was employed by either one at the time of his injury. He was already a national guardsman when he became employed with the appellee Department of Highway Safety, etc., as a highway patrolman, and the Florida Highway Patrol, a state…