Kirby v. Dance Freight Lines

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

This case arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Tennessee.

Mr. Lawrence C. Kirby worked as a truck driver for the defendant, Dance Freight Lines, Inc., over a long period, having started around the year 1945 and continued until a physical breakdown prohibited him from working around March 17, 1963. He died July 17, 1963 at one of the hospitals in Knoxville, Tennessee.

During the last few months of his life he was hospitalized on three separate occasions. The first was around February 23, 1963 which continued to around March 3; the second hospitalization was…