E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY v. KESSLER


345 S.W.2d 663 (1961)

E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY v. Owen L. KESSLER.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Cornelius, Nashville, W.B. De Riemer, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff in error.

Cecil D. Branstetter, George E. Barrett, Ben F. Loeb, Jr., Nashville, for defendant in error.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

The only question in this Workmen's Compensation Case wherein Kessler was awarded compensation based on permanent total disability is whether this disability arose out of, and in the course of, his employment by plaintiff-in-error, Du Pont De Nemours. He had been employed as a welder by Du Pont for about a year and a half before he had on August 27, 1959 the attack upon which his claim in this case is based.

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