Plastics Research & Development Co. v. Goodpaster

Lyle Brown, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case claimant-appellee, Ruby Nell Goodpaster, was awarded eight months temporary total disability. The appeal of the employer, Plastics Research and Development Company, and the carrier, Houston General Insurance Company, is based on the single assertion that there was no substantial evidence to support the award.

According to claimant’s evidence she was, in February 1968, working on the “topcoat line” for Plastics Research. It was her job to take fishing lures from a box on the floor and clip each one on a revolving chain. The chain carried…