Employers' Casualty Co. v. Watson

The Employers’ Casualty Company brought this suit in the district court of Harris county, Tex., to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board awarding ap-pellee compensation for the total loss of the sight of his left eye.

Appellee answered by general demurrer and cross-action, setting up the right to recover for the total and permanent loss of the sight of his left eye, and prayed for recovery in a lump sum.

Appellant, by supplemental petition, answered appellee’s cross-action by general demurrer, general denial, and specially that if appellee suffered an injury he sustained same…