Pentecost v. Anchor Wire Corp.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

The question presented in this workers’ compensation appeal is whether the trial court erred in sua sponte dismissing the Plaintiff’s suit during the course of the Defendant’s proof without allowing rebuttal of that proof by Plaintiff. We are of the opinion that the action by the trial court was error, and we therefore reverse and remand this cause for a new trial.

The Plaintiff-Appellant, Mrs. Helen Pentecost, began working for Defendant-Ap-pellee, Anchor Wire Corporation, in 1978. She worked at an electric fence machine transferring various lengths of different gauge…