Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Steadman

DENTON, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Judgment was rendered on the jury verdict in favor of the claimant for total and permanent incapacity benefits and certain medical expenses. The insurance carrier has appealed.

Steadman was employed by B ornan-Chase Construction Company as a pipe-fitter. On April 5, 1964, while he was bending over a pipe, a grinder “got away” from him and struck him in the face. He was unconscious for some thirty minutes before being taken to the hospital. The treating doctor diagnosed his injuries as a fractured nose, fracture of the frontal bone…