Consolidated Casualty Insurance Co. v. Jackson

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

This is a Workman’s Compensation case.

The principal question involved is the construction of Article 8306, Section 12c of the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act.

In the trial court the jury found that an accidental injury sustained by the appellee (hereinafter called plaintiff) on May 22, 1959, was a producing cause of 96 weeks of total incapacity followed by permanent partial incapacity. The jury found that before the May 22, 1959 injury, plaintiff had an average daily wage of $26.00 and that during the period of plaintiff’s partial incapacity, he had an average weekly wage…