HOLSTON VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL v. DYKES


326 S.W.2d 486 (1959)

HOLSTON VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Plaintiff in Error, v. Kelly DYKES, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Minter, McLellan and Tipton, Kingsport, for plaintiff in error.

Wooten & Wilson, Kingsport, for defendant in error.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

This is a Workmen's Compensation suit under T.C.A. § 50-1001. On October 6, 1957, Kelly Dykes, a janitor at the above named hospital, while lifting a trash hamper, strained his back. After a hearing upon his petition for compensation the trial judge found that he had suffered a 40% permanent partial disability and awarded him compensation accordingly; also the sum of $447.15 for hospital and doctors' bills incurred by the Munal Clinic and with...

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