Smith v. Tennessee Furniture Industries, Inc.

Mb. Special, Justice Robebt S. Clement

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a workmen’s compensation case coming to this Court from the Circuit Court of Hamblen County where the Trial Judge found in favor of the Petitioner and allowed her one hundred sixty (160) weeks or forty per cent (40%), permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and also certain medical and hospital bills.

The Petition alleges that on June 1, 1962, while in the course of her employment, Petitioner was pushing and lifting cases that weigh approximately ninety (90) to one hundred (100) pounds, when she…