Palmer v. Pruitt

OPINION

CHATTIN, Justice.

Appellants have appealed from an adverse decree of the Chancellor awarding appellee workmen’s compensation benefits for temporary total disability from October 16, 1971, until June 1, 1972, and permanent partial disability of fifty per cent to the body as a whole.

Appellants operate a wholesale produce business in Murfreesboro and deliver produce to their customers by trucks in certain Middle Tennessee towns. Trucks are loaded and dispatched over various routes in the early morning hours of the day. Drivers assist in loading the trucks and then deliver the produce to…