Highlands Insurance Company v. Clements

OPINION

NYE, Associate Justice.

This is a compensation suit brought against appellant Highlands Insurance Company by appellee James E. Clements, who alleged that he sustained an accidental injury on December 31, 1964, while working in the course and scope of his employment for Brown & Root, Inc. The jury in response to special issues found that the appellee had sustained such an accidental injury, which was a producing cause of total and permanent injury and incapacity. The jury also found that the appellee’s incapacity was not caused solely by a virus infection known as herpes zoster which was…