Mayes v. Genesco, Inc.

OPINION

ERBY L. JENKINS, Special Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case, the plaintiff, Jerry Wayne Mayes, having brought suit in the Chancery Court of Davidson County for workmen’s compensation benefits. In the Chancery Court the defendant, Genesco, Inc., did not deny that the plaintiff suffered an on-the-job injury, but strongly denied that the plaintiff suffered any permanent disability which would justify compensation.

After a careful review of the facts, the Chancellor held that the plaintiff suffered seventy-five percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, and a…