Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Sutton

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The evi-

dence shows that on the day after the claimant’s accident he was sent by his employer to a hospital in Savannah, Georgia, where he was given some preliminary treatment by the employer’s physician; and that on the same day the employee, without the consent and against the medical advice of the employer’s doctor, left the hospital and went to a hospital at Metter, Georgia, where he was treated by his own physician, Dr. Kennedy.

The director found from a preponderance of the evidence that the claimant left the hospital at Savannah and elected to be…