Texas General Indemnity Company v. Sheffield

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The appellee, Frank T. Sheffield, a truck driver for Herrin Petroleum Transport Corporation, fell a distance of ten to fifteen feet from a gasoline loading rack on August 4, 1966. The transverse processes of his third, fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae were fractured and his shoulder was injured. He. was confined to a hospital for about four weeks where he was treated by Dr. Donald H. Nowlin, an orthopedic surgeon. On December 1,1966, Dr. Nowlin released him to return to work and he did return to the same employment on December 5,…