Olivares v. Travelers Insurance Company

BARROWS, Chief Justice.

A Texas Workmen’s Compensation case. Appellant appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict whereby he recovered the sum of $149.71 for partial incapacity for 145 days, plus medical expenses in the amount of $462.45, as the result of an injury sustained on or about October 1, 1966.

Appellant, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, alleged in his first amended original petition that he sustained an injury to his back on or about October 1, 1966, while employed by the Alice Meat Company while lifting hides. He further alleged that on February 23, 1967, he sustained a…