Smith v. Tennessee Furniture Industries, Inc.

Me. Chiee Justice Peewitt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a workman’s compensation case and the trial judge awarded petitioner below, John I. Smith, compensation for disability sustained to the body as a whole 60% and also medical bills. This appeal resulted.

Smith worked for defendant for a period of some fourteen years, until February, 1960, when he became ill on the job and informed his foreman that he was sick and that he was going to the doctor. He was hospitalized for a period of eleven or twelve days, since which time he has been unable to work.

Prior to this time he had been…