Pan American Insurance Company v. Stokes

DENTON, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Appellee, S. A. Stokes, sued Pan American Insurance Company for total and permanent disability as the result of an alleged injury sustained by him on April 17, 1961 while an employee of McDermett Liquified Gas Company. In response to special issues submitted, the jury found in favor of the claimant, and the trial court entered judgment for appellee for total and permanent disability payable in a lump sum. The insurance carrier assigns as error the overruling of its motion for instructed verdict because it contends it was shown as a…