Home Indemnity Co. v. Lopez

OPINION

SHULTE, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case appealed from an El Paso County Court at Law. The insurer appeals from a judgment granting twenty-six weeks’ compensation for a specific injury (hernia) after the trial court disregarded the jury’s finding of six weeks’ compensation for general injury. The insurer had refused an operation and the Appellee obtained it himself and it was successful. We reverse and render.

The facts present a situation concerning which Section 12b of Article 8306, Tex.Rev. Civ.Stat.Ann. (Vernon 1967), has no application, and the claimant, if compensated…