PLUMB RITE PLUMBING SERVICE v. BARBOUR

Record No. 1629-88-3.

382 S.E.2d 305 (1989)

PLUMB RITE PLUMBING SERVICE, et al., v. Robert O. BARBOUR.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

July 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bevin R. Alexander, Jr. (Edmunds & Williams, on brief), Lynchburg, for appellants.

Robert E. Evans, Lynchburg, for appellee.

Present: BAKER, COLEMAN and MOON, JJ.


MOON, Judge.

Plumb Rite Plumbing Service seeks reversal of an award in favor of Robert Barbour who sustained an acute lumbosacral strain while working on a shower stall within the scope of his employment as a plumber. We reverse the award because the evidence was, as a matter of law, insufficient to show that the strain arose out of the employment.

In order to be compensable, an injury must not only occur within the course of the employment but must also arise...

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