Taylor v. Clayton Mobile Homes, Inc.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation benefits resulting from an accidental injury sustained by the employee, appellant here, on September 23, 1971. Suit was not filed until August 3, 1973, over twenty-two months from the date of the accident.

The chancellor, upon the evidence submitted to him, found that the action was barred by the one-year statute of limitations as contained in T.C.A. §§ 50-1003 and 50-1017. The chancellor found that the appellant had an injury known to her for more than one year prior to the time she brought her suit. As stated by this Court in…