Freeman v. Luppes Transport Company, Inc.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The decision in this workmen’s compensation appeal turns on whether the claimant established a causal connection as a matter of law between an injury on April 24, 1970, and subsequent disability.

Claimant Lynn J. Freeman leased his tractor-trailer combination to Luppes Transport Company to haul ammonia. He drove the truck himself. He received a percentage of the revenue which Luppes obtained for each trip. On April 24, 1970, when a wheel of the truck fell into a chuck hole on a consignee’s premises at Pioneer, Iowa, claimant sustained a neck injury which was diagnosed as a…