Jellico Grocery Co. v. Hendrickson

■ This is a case brought under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Tennessee (Code, section 6851 et seq.). From a decree awarding compensation, the employer has appealed to this court and assigned errors.

The petitioner, Lon Hendrickson, was employed as a rural salesman by defendant, Jellico Grocery Company, for many years. In the late afternoon of March 2, 1936, while ascending the front steps of his residence in the town of Elizabethton, he fell and fractured his left leg. He had spent that day out in his territory taking orders for defendant. He was unable to write up the orders in proper…