First Employees Insurance Co. v. Skinner

BARROW, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on the jury verdict awarding Jessie Skinner workers’ compensation benefits for total and permanent incapacity. The court of appeals affirmed. 636 S.W.2d 258.

We granted First Employees Insurance Company’s application for writ of error to consider the holding by the court of appeals that Rule 281, Tex.R.Civ.P., does not require a trial judge to send the admitted exhibits to the jury room during deliberation. We hold that Rule 281 requires that the exhibits be sent to the jury room and, therefore, the trial court erred in refusing to do…