Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. Draper

OPINION

JACK SMITH, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation suit wherein the appellee, Dersie Draper, obtained a judgment for total and permanent disability. The appellant, Texas Employers Insurance Association, urges reversal, alleging nine points of error.

Dersie Draper is a 56-year old widower, who has worked as a laborer for N.L. Industries for over 27 years. Mr. Draper has a fourth grade education and admittedly cannot read well.

Mr. Draper testified that his job as a chemical mixer required extensive bending and lifting. On July 24, 1979, while Mr. Draper was attempting to move a scale on…