Robinson v. Nashville Machine Co.

MEMORANDUM ON PETITION FOR CERTIORARI

DYER, Chief Justice.

In this, a workmen’s compensation case, the petitioners, Nashville Machine Company, Inc., and its insurance carrier, Aetna Life Insurance Company, have filed a petition for common law certiorari and super-sedeas on the ground there is no other plain, speedy or adequate remedy available. Article 6, § 10, Constitution of Tennessee; T.C.A. § 27-801.

The issue arises upon the refusal of the trial judge to order an autopsy of the deceased employee upon motion of petitioners, pursuant to T.C.A. § 50-1004, on the ground the cause of death was…