Cassell Bros., Inc. v. Cole

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The employee, Clyde Cole, was found to have a forty per cent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as the result of an injury to the trapezius muscle sustained on November 1, 1972. At the time of his injury, Mr. Cole was working for appellant, Cassell Bros., Inc., as a laborer on a school construction site. The employer appealed, insisting the trial court erred:(1) in finding that the “contradictory, unsupported, self-serving statements of the plaintiff and the statements and conclusions of Dr. Richard S. Morrison .…