Rogers v. Flowers Specialty Foods, Inc.

THIGPEN, Judge.

This appeal involves a summary judgment in a workmen’s compensation case.

Charley Rogers filed an action against Flowers Specialty Foods, Inc. (Flowers), alleging that while working for Flowers, he slipped and fell and suffered permanent injury. Record evidence indicates that Rogers was treated by Dr. George Robert Burton, an orthopedic surgeon, who ultimately released Rogers to work, without restrictions, in October 1989. There is evidence in the record that Rogers’s employment with Flowers apparently was terminated for absenteeism in January 1990, and that he obtained…