Travelers Insurance Company v. Jordan

" YOUNG, Justice.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation; Jordan, an employee of Williford Lumber Company, after an unsatisfactory award by the Industrial Accident Board, suing the insurance carrier in District Court to recover compensation for alleged total and permanent disability. On a jury trial, the court rendered judgment for plaintiff, based in part upon the jury answers, awarding plaintiff a recovery for 401 weeks at $27.69 per week from July 21, 1958, date of injury, less sums previously paid by the insurer; the latter duly appealing.

From a series of issues submitted, the jury…