Potomac Insurance Company v. Milligan

*649RENFRO, Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant from a total and permanent disability judgment.

The controlling question is whether the court erred in denying defendant’s motion for continuance after plaintiff filed a trial amendment.

Plaintiff went to trial on the following plea:

“Plaintiff, while working for said employer, West Texas Rendering Plant, on or about December 22, 1958, was loading a truck with barrels of manure and was pulling a barrel over to roll it when his feet slipped and he fell backwards onto another barrel which had a large meat hook inserted or hanging on it. The meat hook…