Home Insurance Co. of Indiana v. Banda

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment awarding Trinidad S. Banda damages for total and permanent disability under the workers’ compensation statute, TEX. REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 8306 et seq. (Vernon 1967). Appellee, Trinidad Banda, while working for the City of Eagle Pass in the sanitation department, alighted from a truck, but missed the bottom step of the truck and fell to the ground. Five days later, Banda suffered a heart attack, after which he underwent open heart surgery. Banda returned to work, but because the city abolished the sanitation department, he was laid off. Another…