Employers-Commercial Union Companies v. Taylor

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation action. The employee, Benjamin Taylor, Jr., was awarded the statutory benefits provided for sixty percent permanent partial disability of the body as a whole. Employers-Commercial Union Companies, the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier for the employer, Liberty Cash Warehouse, insists there is no material evidence to support the judgment of the trial court and, alternatively, that the trial court erred in failing to credit a prior workmen’s compensation award against the present award.

Benjamin Taylor, Jr., was first employed by…