Gulf Insurance Company v. Hodges

REYNOLDS, Justice.

Eliminating any loss of use of plaintiff’s right hand as the sole cause of his incapacity, the jury found, and judgment was entered decreeing that plaintiff recover workmen’s compensation benefits for, a general injury producing temporary total and permanent partial incapacity. Affirmed.

Seeking workmen’s compensation benefits for total and permanent disability resulting from his twenty-five foot fall from a ladder to a concrete floor on September 27, 1971, plaintiff R. B. Hodges originally pleaded a general injury encompassing concurrent specific and general injuries to his…