Jack v. Knoxville Fertilizer Co.

While in the employ of the defendant the petitioner for compensation suffered injuries to his left foot which became infected, as the result of which he was totally disabled for fifty-two weeks from the date of the injury, and while after that time he was able to work, the injury to the foot proved to be permanent to the extent of seventy-five per cent of its use. The controversy here relates wholly to the amount of compensation.

The trial judge found that the petitioner was entitled to fifty per cent of his weekly wages for the fifty-two weeks of his temporary total disability, and in…