Tidwell v. Walden

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Campbell County in a workmen’s compensation case wherein the trial judge dismissed the plaintiffs ’ suit. An appeal was prayed and granted to this Court, following the denial of a motion for a new trial.

A correct statement of the facts which gave rise to the petition for compensation appears in the appellants’ brief, as follows:

“In this case the appellants, Shirley Anne Tidwell and Fletcher Wayne Tidwell, hereinafter called the petitioners filed suit by their mother and Next Friend, Janie Tidwell, in the Circuit Court of Campbell County, Tennessee,…