Case Name: TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and ROEGAINS FRUIT COMPANY, a corporation, v. NADEEN SHEPARD and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1945-02-20
Citations: 155 Fla. 576
Docket Number: 
Parties: TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and ROEGAINS FRUIT COMPANY, a corporation, v. NADEEN SHEPARD and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Judges: CHAPMAN, C. J., TERRELL and BUFORD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 155
Pages: 576–577

Head Matter:
TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and ROEGAINS FRUIT COMPANY, a corporation, v. NADEEN SHEPARD and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
20 So. (2nd) 903
January Term, 1945
February 20, 1945
.Division A
Harry T. Gray, Maries, Maries, Holt,. Gray & Yates, for appellants.
T. C. Corle, for appellee.

Opinion:
ADAMS, J.:
Appellee was employed as a citrus packer. She had been packing fruit with her bare hands for several weeks when a rash appeared on her arms which, within a period of several days, spread to other parts of her body caúsing discomfort and making it necessary for her to stop work. She went to a-doctor who diagnosed the ailment as dermatitis caused by oil from oranges. •
She filed a claim for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The claim was rejected by the Industrial Commission because she did not suffer an accident arising out of and in the course of her employment. On appeal to the circuit court this order, was- reversed. The judgment of the circuit court is before us and presents the single question of whether the injury occurred by an accident as defined in the Workmen's Compensation Act. We can rest the decision of this case on our opinion, S. H. Kress & Company v. Burkes, 153 Fla. 686, 16 So. (2nd) 106.
It is not amiss to point out, however, that an accident is not shown by the unexpected occurrence of an injury. The injury must necessarily follow the unexpected or unusual event in order for the case to come under the statute, Sec. 440.02, F.S. '41, F.S.A. paragraph 19.
The judgment is reversed upon authority of Kress v. Burkes, supra.
Reversed.
CHAPMAN, C. J., TERRELL and BUFORD, JJ., concur.