Wilson v. Van Buren County

Mr. Special Justice Weldon B. White

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error, Clint Wilson, filed a petition in the Circuit Court against the defendants in error in which he sought to recover total and permanent disability benefits as provided under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of the State of Tennessee. He sought in particular to recover benefits allowed for an occupational disease. He averred in the petition that he was suffering from the occupational disease of silicosis. In aid of his claim he invokes subsection (d) of Section 6852 of the Code of Tennessee, as follows:

“An…