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Barbara Jenkins v. Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company

01S01-96021-CR-00036
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge William S. Russell
Originating Judge:Hon. J.O. BOND, JUDGE
Macon County Workers Compensation Panel 01/17/97
State vs. Marvin Mathews

02C01-9701-CC-00024
Lauderdale County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/17/97
01A01-9607-CV-00317

01A01-9607-CV-00317

Originating Judge:Thomas Goodall
Sumner County Court of Appeals 01/17/97
01A01-9607-CV-00328

01A01-9607-CV-00328

Originating Judge:Thomas Goodall
Sumner County Court of Appeals 01/17/97
Randy Wilson v. Eaton Corporation

01S01-9605-CH-00107
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with TENN. CODE ANN. _ 5-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting to the Supreme Court of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The trial judge awarded the plaintiff 5% permanent partial disability to the right hand. He refused to award temporary total disability benefits because plaintiff had lost no wages during his period of temporary total disability. Appellant challenges the trial court's findings that plaintiff sustained a work- related injury by accident to his right thumb in August 1992, that plaintiff gave notice of such an injury and that this claim is not barred by the statute of limitations. Appellee challenges the trial court's refusal to award temporary total disability benefits. Appellee also argues that the appellant should be estopped from pleading the affirmative defenses relied upon for failure to show proper and timely filing of the required notice of controversy. We affirm the trial court's judgment. Plaintiff, 4 at the time of trial, has his high school diploma. He has worked primarily in factories; he also worked as a patrolman for two-and-a-half years. He has worked for the appellant since 1984. He now works as a gear lab technician, which requires lifting and grasping of parts ranging from 3 to 4 pounds apiece. In August 1992 he developed a knot on the outside of his thumb and began having stiffness and pain in his thumb and difficulty grasping objects. A few weeks later, a part overturned in his hand and "snapped [his] thumb out." Plaintiff testified that he reported his injury the next day, August 21, 1992, to the plant nurse. She asked him if he had ever hurt his thumb before, and he told her the only time he had ever hurt it before would have been in 1988 when he had fallen. He testified that the nurse told him that she thought his problem with his thumb had something to do with his 1988 fall. In the 1988 fall, plaintiff hit his left hand against a railing and strained three of his fingers on his left hand; he also jammed the thumb on his right hand, but there is no record of a complaint about the 2
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge John K. Byers
Originating Judge:Hon. Tyrus H. Cobb,
Wilson County Workers Compensation Panel 01/17/97
Martha Ann Boyd v. Lincoln Brass Works, Inc.

01S01-9604-CV-00062
Authoring Judge: Senior Judge William S. Russell
Originating Judge:Hon. WILLIAM B. CAIN, JUDGE
Wayne County Workers Compensation Panel 01/17/97
On April 29, 1993. See State v. Teresa M. King, No. 01C01-9204-Cr-00146 (Tenn. Crim.

01C01-9610-CR-00449
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9510-CC-00326

01C01-9510-CC-00326

Originating Judge:James K. Clayton, Jr.
Rutherford County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9510-CR-00335

01C01-9510-CR-00335

Originating Judge:Thomas H. Shriver
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9411-CC-00378

01C01-9411-CC-00378

Originating Judge:William B. Cain
Wayne County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9602-CR-00071

01C01-9602-CR-00071
Sumner County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9601-CR-00045

01C01-9601-CR-00045
Sumner County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9604-CC-00138

01C01-9604-CC-00138

Originating Judge:Gerald L. Ewell, Sr.
Coffee County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9603-CC-00099

01C01-9603-CC-00099
Hickman County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01C01-9507-CC-00234

01C01-9507-CC-00234
Williamson County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/16/97
01A01-9606-CH-00278

01A01-9606-CH-00278

Originating Judge:Ellen Hobbs Lyle
Davidson County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9608-BC-00359

01A01-9608-BC-00359

Originating Judge:William C. Koch
Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9605-CH-00222

01A01-9605-CH-00222

Originating Judge:Billy Joe White
Fentress County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9606-CH-00256

01A01-9606-CH-00256
Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9607-CV-00334

01A01-9607-CV-00334

Originating Judge:Bobby H. Capers
Macon County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9606-CH-00279

01A01-9606-CH-00279

Originating Judge:Ellen Hobbs Lyle
Davidson County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
Carl E. Jordan, v. Tennessee Board of Paroles, et al.

01A01-9607-CH-00347

An inmate in the custody of the Department of Correction filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to challenge the Parole Board’s refusal to grant him parole. The Chancery Court dismissed the Petition for failure to comply with the time limitations for filing. We affirm the dismissal on the alternate ground of failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.

Authoring Judge: Judge William C. Koch, Jr.
Originating Judge:Chancellor Robert S. Brandt
Davidson County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
The Honorable Hamilton v. Gayden, Jr., Judge

01A01-9607-CV-00338

Originating Judge:Hamilton V. Gayden, Jr.
Davidson County Court of Appeals 01/15/97
Seffernick vs. St. Thomas Hospital

01A01-9606-CV-00282
Court of Appeals 01/15/97
01A01-9606-CH-00256

01A01-9606-CH-00256

Originating Judge:Henry F. Todd
Court of Appeals 01/15/97