Giles County Board of Education v. Hickman

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

There are two issues in this workmen’s compensation case: (1) what constitutes adequate notice to employer of employee *945injury; and (2) whether plaintiff’s suit, filed more than one (1) year after date of injury, was properly sustained despite the statute of limitations.

The Chancellor held that plaintiff’s conversations with the school principal and the office of superintendent of schools constituted actual notice to employer of his injury and further found defendants to be equitably estopped from raising the statute of limitations because of representations made to…