LANE CO., INC. v. SAUNDERS

Record No. 840182.

326 S.E.2d 702 (1985)

The LANE COMPANY, INCORPORATED, et al. v. Hammie L. SAUNDERS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd C. Jennings, Jr., Lynchburg (Rhodes, Jennings & Livingston, Lynchburg, on brief), for appellants.

Robert E. Evans, Lynchburg (Evans Law Office, Lynchburg, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

This Workers' Compensation appeal turns on the question whether the herniation of a claimant's intervertebral disc, which occurred at an uncertain time, was a compensable "injury by accident" under the Compensation Act.

Hammie L. Saunders, the claimant, had been employed by The Lane Company, Incorporated, a manufacturer of furniture, for about a year as a band saw operator. On June 7, 1983, there was no work to be done on the band saw, and...

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