Lewis v. Commercial Insurance Co. of Newark

DIES, Chief Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case wherein the carrier, Commercial Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, as plaintiff below, filed suit to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board. Defendant and cross-plaintiff, Melvin Lee Lewis, an employee of Houston Lighting & Power, alleged incapacity because of an injury occurring August 15, 1973.

Trial was to a jury which failed to find that the injury was the producing cause of any total or partial incapacity.

Judgment was given carrier from which Lewis perfects this appeal, contending these findings were against the…