Howell v. Charles H. Bacon Co.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

This is an action for recovery of death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Tennessee, Code sec. 6851 et seq. The employee, Roy Howell, was injured May 8, 1948, by a fall from a broken scaffold to a concrete floor, where he landed on his feet after a six-foot drop. Perceptible injury was to his left foot, which X-ray study disclosed to be a fracture of the heel bone, involving its joint with an adjacent bone. The direct cause of his death August 17, 1948, was a coronary thrombosis, and the problem here is to determine whether the original injury…