DOWNS v. CNA INS. CO.


765 S.W.2d 738 (1989)

Richard DOWNS, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. CNA INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant/Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

February 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther E. Cantrell, Jr., Davies, Cantrell, Humphreys & McCoy, Nashville, for plaintiff-appellant.

C. Hayes Cooney, John B. Carlson, Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Nashville, for defendant-appellee.


OPINION

O'BRIEN, Justice.

The judgment in this workers' compensation case was appealed by the plaintiff due to purported error in the computation of disability compensation by the trial judge.

The fact of an on-the-job injury sustained in the course of employment is not disputed. Defendant was engaged in his employer's business, clearing a power line of overhanging tree limbs, when he fell some thirty feet to the ground from a bucket attached to...

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