Lyle v. Exxon Corp.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case the chancellor found that plaintiff, Charles M. Lyle, sustained a sixty percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole due to a work-related accident. The chancellor awarded plaintiff his medical expenses, temporary total disability benefits, and permanent partial disability benefits. Defendant, Exxon Corporation, and its worker’s compensation insurance carrier, Petroleum Casualty Company, have appealed.

On 6 September 1985, plaintiff was employed by defendant as a service station attendant at defendant’s Briley Parkway…