Thomas v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.

OPINION

REID, Chief Justice.

This workers' compensation case presents an appeal by the employer from the judgment of the trial court awarding the employee benefits for a fifty-two percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. The appellant attacks the credibility of the employee’s medical evidence and contends the evidence preponderates against the trial court’s award. The record shows that the evidence does not preponderate against the trial court’s findings.

When injured on March 17, 1986, the appellee, Arnold Rae Thomas, was working for the appellant, J.T. Baker Chemical…