Legal Opinion

Cherokee Sand Co. v. Green

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 6, 1925PublishedCited by 5 opinions

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…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. McConnell v. Murphy Bros.Wyoming Supreme Court · 1933
  2. Knoxville Power & Light Co. v. BarnesTennessee Supreme Court · 1927
  3. Turner v. Bluff City Lumber Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1950
  4. Jack v. Knoxville Fertilizer Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1926
  5. Kitts v. American Mutual Liability InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1955

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