United Paint Co. v. Tillman

MR. Special Justice Robert S. Clement

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a workmen’s compensation case coming to this Court from the Chancery Court of Shelby County, where the Chancellor allowed the employee twenty-five (25%) per cent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and certain medical expenses. The parties will be referred to herein as Petitioner and Defendant, as they appeared in the lower court.

Petitioner claims that he contracted an occupational disease which is compensable under T.C.A. Section 50-1101 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The Defendant strongly…