TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Shannon

GREENHILL, Justice.

The determination of this workmen’s compensation case involves four main problems: (1) whether there is evidence of a general injury to the body of the plaintiff; (2) the correctness of the wording of the jury issue dealing with extension of an injury to the leg into the plaintiff’s body; (3) whether the plaintiff’s wage rate was properly proved; and (4) whether the voluntary payment before suit of compensation at a particular rate constitutes a judicial admission of the correctness of the wage rate so as to obviate the necessity of jury findings on wage rate.

The plaintiff…