Texas Employer's Insurance Ass'n v. Sauceda

OPINION

CANTU, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The trial court rendered judgment upon jury findings allowing Sauceda a recovery for the total and permanent loss of use of his leg below the knee.

Frutoso Sauceda, appellee, was injured on November 4, 1977, during the course of his employment as a welder’s helper at the Johnson Drilling Company in Hondo, Texas. Sauceda, a 48 year-old man with a third grade education, was injured while working on a drilling rig as he and another employee were pulling pipe out of the ground and breaking the joints loose with a pipe wrench. In…