Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Collins

ABBOTT, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case, in which appellee sued appellant to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board. Trial by jury was had in Andrews County and resulted in a judgment for appellee for the maximum amount allowed under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, for total and permanent disability. From this judgment appellant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, has brought this appeal.

Hubert Collins, a Negro laborer SO years of age, was employed by the B.M.F.P. Construction Company some time in March or April of 1956, at a wage of $1.25 per hour. His duties…