Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Cheek

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

This case arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Defendant in error was the employee, John Guitar the employer, and plaintiff in error the insurance carrier. In the trial below, on an appeal by defendant in error from the award by the Industrial Accident Board, judgment was rendered in his favor for $2,354.80 to be. paid in a lump sum. The assignments of error will be consider&l in their order.

The first assignment presents this question: Special issue No. 4 submitted by the court to the jury was as follows: “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that…