Applegate v. Home Indemnity Co.

GRANT, Justice.

Johnny Applegate appeals from a judgment based upon a jury verdict involving his workers’ compensation claim for a low back injury sustained while stocking at Safeway. The jury found that Applegate was injured in the course and scope of his employment on March 14, 1983, in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas. The jury further found that Safeway Stores, Inc. did not have notice of the injury within thirty days, as required by statute, but that Ap-plegate believed that his injury was not job-related during that time period and that this belief caused him to delay giving notice.…