Harris v. Kroger Co., Inc.

OPINION

HENRY, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation action in which the employee appeals from a judgment awarding her additional temporary disability benefits but denying her any .benefits for permanent partial disability or any reimbursement for medical expenses incurred in seeking a doctor chosen by the employee without consulting her employer.

I

It is undisputed that appellant injured her back on October 1, 1975, in an accident arising out of and in the course of her employment as a produce worker at appel-lee’s supermarket. Appellant was taken to the emergency room of a local…