Tri-City Towel & Linen Service, Inc. v. Cope

*52OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the employee fell in a public alley, near the entrance to the building of her employer, as she was returning from lunch. There is no claim of permanent partial disability, but the Chancellor allowed temporary total disability benefits for a period of twenty-two months following the date on which the employee left her employment. The employer has appealed.

The employer operated a laundry in Kingsport, fronting on Clay Street, a public thoroughfare. There was a side entrance opening into a public alley, which was not part of…