Grisham v. Nelms

NOBLE, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment denying recovery in a workmen’s compensation claim.

Helen Grisham was employed as a waitress in a restaurant operated by defendant Nelms. She claims to have sustained an accidental injury, resulting in a fracture of the coccyx, by falling against the toilet in the ladies rest room in defendant’s restaurant on August 5, 1960, while so employed. She did not work on either August 3 or August 4, and there is evidence that her neck was blue and she had difficulty getting around when she returned to work on August 5. When asked what the trouble was, she…