Vinson v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

OPINION

ALLISON B. HUMPHREYS, Special Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. The plaintiff, Mary Elizabeth Vinson, recovered a judgment for nine weeks temporary total disability and the defendants, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and Insurance Company of North America, Incorporated, have appealed.

The brief opinion of the trial court adequately summarizes the case, the facts, and the basis for the court’s holding. The opinion is, in pertinent part, as follows:

Plaintiff was employed in the Banbury Department of Firestone where chemicals are mixed with rubber. On March 8, 1981, she…