Second Injury Fund v. Guidry

McNEILL, Justice.

Appellee sued the Second Injury Fund of the State of Texas, administered by the Industrial Accident Board, in a District Court of Jefferson County, to recover benefits from said Fund, as provided in Section 12c-1, Article 8306, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.St, for total and permanent incapacity resulting from a non-compensable childhood injury to his left eye and a subsequent com-pensable injury to his right eye, for which subsequent injury he was paid the equivalent of 100 weeks at the maximum rate of $25 per week, this subsequent injury having occurred on January 31, 1957, while in…