TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Hawkins

DENTON, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association has appealed from a judgment based on a jury verdict finding L. D. Hawkins to be totally and permanently incapacitated as the result of a low-back injury sustained on October 4, 1960, while lifting a heavy pipe. The first trial of this case resulted in a judgment for the claimant for total temporary incapacity for a period of one week. That judgment was reversed and remanded on the ground the trial court gave an incorrect definition of “total incapacity.” Tex.Civ.App., 363 S.W.2d 788, affirmed…