TATUM v. PALMER


340 S.W.2d 914 (1960)

Lewis TATUM D/B/A Tatum Shoe Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lillian PALMER, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDonald, Kuhn, McDonald, Crenshaw & Smith, Memphis, Henry T. V. Miller, Memphis, of counsel, for plaintiff in error.

Walter Buford, Memphis, for defendant in error.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case. The only question raised by the one assignment of error on appeal is whether or not the trial judge was in error in holding that the injured employee, Mrs. Palmer, did not unreasonably refuse a request for a further examination consisting of a myelogram.

T.C.A. § 50-1004 provides in part as follows:

"The injured employee must submit himself to the examination by the employer's physician...

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