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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
SPECIAL WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS PANEL
AT JACKSON

(April 18, 1996 Session)

SANDRA WHITEHEAD,  )  LAUDERDALE CHANCERY  
)
Plaintiff-Appellee, )  Hon. Dewey C. Whitenton,  
)  Chancellor.  
v.  )  
)  No. 02S01-9511-CH-00118  

EXPRESS SERVICES, INC., )
)
Defendant-Appellant. )

FILED

August 28, 1996
Cecil Crowson, Jr. Appellate C ourt Clerk
For Appellant: For Appellee:
Sam L. Crain, Jr. Ricky L. Boren Laurie Meehan Hill Boren P.C. Burch, Porter & Johnson Jackson, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee
M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N
Members of Panel:
Lyle Reid, Associate Justice, Supreme Court
John K. Byers, Senior Judge
Joe C. Loser, Jr., Special Judge

AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED                                                         Loser, Judge This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special
Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and conclusions of law.  In this appeal, the employer, Express Services, contends the trial court's award of permanent partial disability benefits on the basis of eighty percent permanent partial disability to the left arm is excessive. The panel has concluded that the award should be modified to provide permanent partial disability benefits on the basis of fifty percent to the left arm.
At the time of the trial, the claimant, Sandra Whitehead, was thirty

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