Scroggins v. Corning Glass Company

My brother judges quote 1 Larson, Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 13.21, p 192.86, as supporting their position. The cases cited in Larson are distinguishable on their facts from the case at hand. In the most favorable case cited therein, Fennell v. Maryland Casualty Company (1961), 208 Tenn 116 (344 SW2d 352), the employee suffered pain following a back injury and operation. When the drugs prescribed by his doctor were exhausted he substituted whisky in nonintoxicating doses to ease the pain. Compensation was awarded when the development of acute hepatitis in addition to malnutrition, the…