JONES v. D. CANALE & CO.


652 S.W.2d 336 (1983)

Ruby Lee JONES, Appellant, v. D. CANALE & COMPANY and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T.F. Jackson, III, Thomas H. Fulton, Lawler, Humphreys, Dunlap & Wellford, P.C., Memphis, for appellant.

Jack A. Childers, Jr., Johnson & Bateman, Memphis, for appellee.


OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

The sole determinative issue before this Court is whether the trial court erred in withholding worker's compensation death benefits to deceased's putative wife of twenty-five years.

Plaintiff, Ruby Lee Jones, sought worker's compensation benefits as a result of the death of one Charlie Jones, an employee of defendant D. Canale & Co. Plaintiff and Charlie Jones had lived together in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1954 until...

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