Highley v. Martin

CROW, Presiding Judge.

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

That perhaps succinctly characterizes the way Charles H. Martin and Joyce Martin (“the Martins”), doing business as Martin Logging and Lumber Company, undertook to protect themselves financially from a claim against them by Roger C. Highley (“claimant”) under The Workers’ Compensation Law, chapter 287, RSMo 1986. We are aware of no factually similar Missouri case.

In an amended claim for compensation filed July 29, 1987, claimant alleged his left hand was permanently injured by a saw in an accident arising out of and in the…