Cates v. T.I.M.E., DC, Inc.

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case heard by this Court following the grant of a discretionary appeal by the chancellor. This appeal, therefore, is limited to the chancellor’s order dismissing that part of the appellant’s complaint which sought compensation based on the rate established by legislative action in 1971 rather than the rate existing at the time of appellant’s injury in 1969.

The appeal in this cause was granted pursuant to T.C.A. § 27-305, which allows “any party to appeal from a judgment or decree which settles the rights of the parties, although the…