Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. v. Sims

JONES, Chief Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation suit, in which O. F. Sims, appellee, is the employee, and Employers’ Liability Assurance Company, Limited, a corporation, appellant, is the compensation carrier. In a suit filed by appellee in a district court, to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board and to recover compensation allowed by law for total and permanent disability, appellee was awarded judgment for a lump sum payment of $4,389.14 for such disability, and White & Yarborough, his attorneys, were allowed by the court one-third of this sum as a reasonable attorney…