Tennessee Eastman Corp. v. Newman

The defendant-in-error, plaintiff below, George Newman, was an employee of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation from the year 1929 until March of the year 1935, when because of an alleged occupational disease contracted during his employment he became disabled and was compelled to quit his work, and not having recovered he instituted this suit in November 1935, seeking to hold the corporation liable for a violation of the Tennessee Workshop and Factory Inspection Act, carried into the Code under Sections 5339, 5340'. The case was removed by the defendant to the Federal Court and it went to…