Burns v. Joyner

Moss, Chief Justice:

This case arose under the South Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act, Section 72-1 et seq., Code of 1962, as amended. There is here involved an appeal by the employer, a self-insurer, from an order of the circuit judge affirming an award of the Commission.

Lonzy Burns, Jr., the respondent herein, a pulpwood cutter for Moses Joyner, the appellant herein, received an injury on December 11, 1971, in the course and scope of his employment, while walking through the woods carrying a chain saw, when his right leg went into a stump hole up to his groin. The respondent reported his…