Consolidated Underwriters v. Vargas

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal, in a cause arising under the Compensation Law, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq., is from a lump-sum judgment for $2,949.62 in favor of the appellee, and against the appellant, entered by the Eightieth district court of Harris county solely upon a jury’s verdict in response to' special issues submitted to it — the court itself making no additional findings from the evidence — the stated aggregate having been computed as the value at that date of 400 weeks of compensation at the rate of $7.99 per week, found by the jury to have become due the appellee as the…