Bingham v. Dyersburg Fabrics Co., Inc.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the employee appeals from the judgment of the trial court awarding him permanent partial disability benefits of 25% to the body as a whole for a lumbo-sacral strain. Employee contends that he is totally disabled.

Claimant was employed as a bobbin stripper for Dyersburg Fabrics. The only evidence that employee sustained an on-the-job injury was the testimony of employee himself; he testified that he felt a pain in his back while pushing heavy boxes. Employee went to a chiropractor and a number of doctors for his pain, but they…