Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York v. Treadwell

Mr. Chiee Justice Burnett

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The trial judge found that the injured employee sustained permanent partial disability as provided by sec. 50-1007(c), T.C.A., in the amount of seventy-five (75%) per cent, to the body as a whole. He also found that the employee was entitled to recover $167.78 expended for drugs and medicine purchased to relieve himself of his injuries. The employer has seasonably appealed to this Court.

The employee, fifty-six (56) years old, uneducated, and a laborer, was injured in a fall in July, 1960, while…