SMITH v. HALE


528 S.W.2d 543 (1975)

A.B. SMITH and C.A. Smith d/b/a Smith Mechanical Contractors, Appellants, v. Fred H. HALE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank K. Moore, J. Patrick Ledford, Moore, Stout, Waddell & Ledford, Kingsport, for appellants.

Larry R. Dillow, Dillow & Hopson, Kingsport, for appellee.


OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

This appeal of a workmen's compensation award of fifty (50%) percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, is based upon an insistence that it was error to award more than ten (10%) percent of the right upper extremity because that was the opinion of the treating orthopedic physician.

I.

Employee, Hale, was employed as a plumber's and sheet metal helper...

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