Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. McGee

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiff McGee brought suit against defendant Insurance Company to recover compensation for injuries alleged to have been sustained in the course of his employment as an employee of Catalytic Construction Company. Plaintiff alleged total and permanent incapacity as a result of slipping off a crane, “sustaining double hernia and severe and permanent injury to his back.” Trial was to a jury which, in answer to special issues, found:

1) Plaintiff sustained injury on 24 February, 1958.

2) Such injury was accidental.

3) Such injury was…