Jones v. St. Regis Paper Co.

Claimant appeals from a judgment of the Workers’ Compensation Court upholding defendant’s denial of workers’ compensation benefits. The sole issue before this Court is whether there was substantial evidence to support the Workers’ Compensation Court’s judgment that claimant did not suffer a compensable injury within the meaning of the Montana Workers’ Compensation Act, section 39-71-119, MCA.

We reverse the judgment of the Workers’ Compensation Court.

Claimant is a man in his late thirties with a high school education and a year of college. He worked as a logger in the CETA program in 1976,…