Whitfield v. Traders & General Ins. Co.

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The Industrial Accident Board awarded to J. B. Whitfield compensation for the loss, of an eye suffered by him while working as a service man in the shop of the Maytag Southwestern Company at Brady, Tex. That company was a subscriber under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq.) and the defendant in error was the insurer. The insurer appealed from such award -to the district court. The appeal was tried to a jury, but at the close of the evidence the court instructed a verdict against the claimant on the…