Lawson v. Employers Insurance

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Russell C. Lawson has brought suit against his employer’s insurance carrier under the Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation Law for injuries resulting from an occupational disease. He contends that the long hours and irregular shifts that he was required to work caused a disabling chronic anxiety reaction with hypertension and related complications.

Plaintiff is forty-four years of age, married and two of his three children reside at his home. He started work with his present employer, after completing military service, some twenty-two years ago as a track…