EI Du Pont De Nemours & Company v. Friar

Gordon S. Friar, defendant in error, filed a petition for Workmen’s Compensation in the Chancery Court of Hamilton County, Tennessee, naming as defendants in the petition, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and James Alexander, State Treasurer of Tennessee, as custodian of the Second Injury Fund. The petition alleged that the defendant in error had been employed by the plaintiff in error, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, as an iron worker on May 18,1964, and that while in the course and scope of Ms employment petitioner accidentally fell from a ladder causing injury to Ms back and…