Clyde Wormsley v. Consolidation Coal Company

WEICK, Chief Judge.

Consolidation Coal Company has appealed from a judgment of the District Court awarding its employee, Clyde Wormsley (appellee) 1 , disability benefits under the Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation Statute for an occupational disease incurred in the course of his employment as a coal miner. Consolidation was a self-insurer.

The principal issue on appeal is whether the suit was barred by the statute of limitations, which provides in part:

“The right to compensation for occupational disease is forever barred unless suit therefore is commenced within one (1) year after the beginning…