McKnight v. General Motors Corp.

J^NORRIS, Chief Judge.

This is a worker compensation case that arose before the creation of the WCJ system. The employer, General Motors, appeals a judgment of the District Court finding the claimant, Mary Ann McKnight, to be temporarily, totally disabled on physical and emotional grounds. For the reasons expressed, we affirm.

Factual background

Ms. McKnight went to work for GM at its Shreveport plant in 1983. Initially she worked the night shift, off-line. She had no problems, physical or mental, until she moved to the day shift in July 1984, taking an assembly line job installing transmission…