Trane Co. v. Morrison

*850OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Defendants, Trane Company and its insurer, appeal from a decree awarding permanent total benefits to employee, Phillip Morrison. Defendants admit plaintiff suffered a compensable injury and is entitled to benefits, but attack the admissibility and efficacy of the medical proof.

Plaintiff was injured on November 14, 1973. Following a myelography, an operation was performed on January 10, 1974, and an extruded disc removed from the L-4,5 space. On January 13, 1974, while still confined to the hospital, plaintiff slipped and fell in the bathroom. Plaintiff acknowledged that…