Cherokee Sand Co. v. Green
Tennessee Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cook
This is a proceeding to enforce payment of compensa-ion under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Pub. Acts 1919, chapter 123), T. 0. Green, an employee of the Cherokee Sand Company, was injured July, 1923, by a fall of twenty feet into a pit.
The physicians testify that the fall broke both bones of the left leg two or more inches above the ankle. It appears from the testimony of one of the physicians that the ankle joints below the fracture were driven together by force of the fall and badly injured. Healing left excessive callous at the fiber end of the connecting bones, which threw the joints…
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