Terry v. Webb Division Marmon Industries, Inc.

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a denial of workmen’s compensation benefits. The employee, Emmitt Terry, alleged that he was due workmen’s compensation benefits as a result of a work-related “accident” or, in the alternative, due to his suffering from an occupational disease.

After receiving ore tenus evidence, the trial court determined that Terry did not meet his burden of proof so as to establish that he had suffered a work-related accident. The trial court also found that Terry had not offered sufficient proof to establish that he suffered an occupational disease.

Terry…