TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Murphy

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The principal issue is whether repeated inhalation of lead and zinc fumes accompanying the burning of galvanized iron over a three day period, which resulted in disability, is an industrial accident compensa-ble under the Act.

The case was tried to a jury, which found that the plaintiff (1) sustained injuries “on or about July 1, 2 and 3, 1970, in the course of his employment,” (2) that such injuries were the result of an accident (defined as being an undesigned or unexpected occurrence, traceable to a definite time and place), (3)…