Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Urias

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is an appeal by the insurance carrier in a workmen’s compensation case. Based upon favorable answers by the jury to special issues, judgment was entered for the Plaintiff, Joe T. Urias, in a lump sum allowing recovery for total and permanent disability less credit for the amount theretofore paid by the insurer. We reverse and remand the case.

Plaintiff alleged that while in the course of his employment “the said plaintiff fell off a ladder and received a comminuted fracture to his left heel and foot; that at the same time as a result of the fall he injured his low…