Hays v. Federal Chemical Co.

The question presented on this appeal is whether chapter 84 of the Acts of 1923, amending chapter 123 of the Acts of 1919, the Workmen’s Compensation Act, so amends the earlier act as to entitle the widow of a deceased employee to fifty per cent, of the average weekly wages of her husband, instead of thirty per cent, of his average weekly wages, as provided in the original statute.

*171This question was before us in Caruthers v. Lake County Mfg. Co., Inc., 150 Tenn., 269, 263 S. W., 793, and was answered in the negative. We are now asked to reconsider onr former holding.

The opinion in Caruthers v.…