White v. Whiteway Pharmacy, Inc.

The petitioners, the minor children and the dependents of Jean Evelyn White Pride filed their petition in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, seeking to recover benefits under the Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation Act, which they claim accrued to them as the result of the death of their mother while at work for the defendant Whiteway Pharmacy, Inc. The Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is the insurance carrier for its co-defendant Whiteway Pharmacy, Inc.

After hearing all of the evidence in the case the Chancellor wrote a full and exhaustive memorandum and said in part as follows:

“Before there…