Life & Casualty Insurance v. Ayers

This is an appeal-in-error from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, awarding plaintiff below, Mrs. Viola Ayers, a judgment for $500 on an industrial insurance policy for complete and permanent loss of plaintiff’s right foot.

Plaintiff contended that she was engaged as a carpenter helping her husband in the construction of a new house when she stepped back into a hole in the floor left for the purpose of installing a floor furnace, and injured her right leg in such a manner that traumatic arthritis developed, resulting in the complete and permanent loss of the use of…