Triangle Distributors v. Russell

GILLESPIE, Chief Justice:

In this workmen’s compensation case the claimant sustained an accident while in the course of his employment, resulting in total disability from a ruptured or extruded disc in the lower part of his spine. The employer and workmen’s compensation carrier admitted that the claimant sustained an injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment. The employer and carrier moved to order suspension of future payments of compensation because of the alleged unreasonable refusal of claimant to *912submit to recommended medical treatment consisting of myelographic…