TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Curry

HAMILTON, Chief Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case in which appelle.e, J. O. Curry, as plaintiff below, sued appellant Texas Employers’ Insurance Association as defendant to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board. .Based upon jury findings, judgment was entered against appellant in the trial court for the maximum amount allowed under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, for total and permanent disability. Appellee was a ■ roughneck on an oil well drilling team. He testified that about one hour after he started to. work one morning that while running pipe in the hole he felt…