Riley v. Knoxville Iron Co.

This is a compensation case brought under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Tennessee — Code, section 6851 et seq. Petitioners are the grandson and daughter, respectively, of Gardner Holt, deceased, who, it is averred, was a regular employee of defendant, Knoxville Iron Company, and on April 19, 1940*, sustained an injury by accident arising* out of and in the course of his employment, which injury wholly incapacitated him from doing further work and thereafter he was sent to a hospital by the defendant where he was operated on by defendant’s physician on May 24, 1940, and that death resulted…