City of Austin v. Powell

GRAY, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case wherein appellee recovered a judgment at a jury trial for permanent total disability.

Appellant became self-insured under the Workman’s Compensation Law on February 1, 1955. Appellee sustained an accidental injury to his right knee on January 14, 1955, while in the course of his employment with appellant. On that day he and other employees were laying concrete sewer pipe and appellee while handling a piece of such pipe was struck by the pipe on the inside of his right knee. This injury proved very painful, appellee received treatment by a…