Dunlop Tire Corp. v. Pitts

MONROE, Judge.

Alton Ray Pitts sued his employer, Dunlop Tire Corporation, to recover workers’ compensation benefits for an injury he suffered while on the job. After a hearing, the trial court entered a judgment finding that Pitts’s injury had left him permanently and totally disabled. The court also awarded Dunlop a set-off of Pitts’s pension benefits against the workers’ compensation benefits to which he was entitled. Dunlop appeals from the trial court’s finding that Pitts was permanently and totally disabled. Pitts cross appeals the award of the set-off.

The record tended to show the…