McKinney v. Feldspar Corp.

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. The Chancellor awarded benefits for permanent total disability, finding that the plaintiff suffers permanent total disability from silicosis contracted from the breathing of silica dust while employed in the Feldspar mine of the defendant.

The principal issue raised by the defendant is that the statute of limitations of one year, T.C.A., § 50-1017, ran prior the the filing of the plaintiff's suit on November 28, 1978.

The plaintiff contends that he was not aware of his cause of action until he was clearly and unequivocally informed by…