Lipe v. Bradbury

MABRY, Justice.

Claimant-appellee filed suit against defendants-appellants, employers and their insurer, seeking to recover under the New Mexico Workmen’s Compensation Act for total and permanent disability resulting from a fractured left wrist. Defendants in their answer set forth that claimant had been paid the statutory compensation for forty-four weeks on account of the injury and denied that claimant was totally and permanently disabled as a result of the injury complained of, or that he was then suffering from any further compensable injury. The case was tried to a jury which returned a…