The MAGNAVOX COMPANY OF TENNESSEE v. Shepherd

This is a workmen’s compensation ease in which the employee filed a petition under the provisions of T.C.A. sec 50-1025 seeking the modification of the original judgment on the ground of an increase of incapacity due solely to the injury described in the original petition. The trial judge found there had been an increase in incapacity due solely to the original injury and awarded the employee an additional twenty per cent permanent partial disability.

The trial court overruled the defendant’s motion for a new trial resulting in this appeal.

The parties agree that the real issue presented here…