Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Durbin

STOKES, Justice.

This case arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq., and is presented here upon a writ o.f error from a judgment entered by the trial court awarding to defendant in error compensation in a lump sum of $5,751.30, based upon findings of the jury of total and permanent disability. The record discloses that defendant in error was employed by D. R. Tripplehorn as a pumper at an oil well located in Gray County, and that o.n December 18, 1935, as the result of an explosion of the boiler, he was injured, the injuries consisting of a broken jaw…