United Employers Casualty Co. v. Smith

SMITH, Chief Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case J. T. Smith was the employee, H. B. Zachry Company, the employer, and United Employers Casualty Company, the insurance carrier. The latter has appealed from a judgment awarding Smith the maximum compensation fixed by the law, for total permanent disability. The parties will be designated here as in the trial court.

Plaintiff • recovered upon his claim that he sustained accidental injury while lifting a heavy object, which resulted immediately in a hernia and his consequent incapacity. Defendant contested the claim upon the contention…