TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Brown

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case where Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, the insurance carrier, has appealed from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict awarding Robert Wayne Brown damages for an accidental injury sustained in the course of his employment with Ferrier Brothers, the insured employer. The parties will hereafter be referred to as they were in the trial court. Robert Wayne Brown will be referred to as plaintiff and Texas Employers’ Insurance Association as defendant.

The accident here in question occurred on July 24, 1958, at approximately 10:00…