Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Hawkins

GRIFFIN, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit brought in the district court of Hutchinson County, Texas by respondent L. D. Hawkins, as plaintiff, against Texas Employers Insurance Association, as defendant.

The cause was tried to a jury and on the answers of the jury to the court’s charge, judgment was rendered for the defendant.

On appeal, the Court of Civil Appeals reversed and remanded the cause for a new trial on two grounds (1) that the trial court’s definition of the term “total incapacity” was incorrect and (2) that “the verdict of the jury taken as a whole, which had the…