Suggs v. Snow Hill Milling Co.

COZORT, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the Industrial Commission’s award of total disability compensation benefits to plaintiff. The award was based on the conclusion that “intoxication was not a proximate cause of the accident [which disabled the plaintiff].” We affirm.

Plaintiff Johnny Suggs, now approximately twenty-nine years old, worked at odd jobs as needed for defendant Snow Hill Milling Company (Snow Hill). Plaintiff has a history of “mental and visual motor impairment” dating from 1968; his I.Q. was evaluated as 64 in 1987. On 17 March 1986, William Taylor, who supervised laborers for…