Nu-Way Laundry & Cleaners v. Palmer

Lawson Cloninger, Judge.

This appeal arises from a decision of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission awarding benefits to appellee for injuries she received in a fall while at work in appellant’s cleaning plant. Appellee testified that she slipped in a puddle of water on the floor; appellant presented five witnesses who said that appellee had made statements immediately after the mishap to the effect that her knee had given way. The Commission endorsed the holding of an Administrative Law Judge that appellee’s injury arose out of and in the course of her employment with appellant and…