Highlands Insurance Company v. Daniel

SELLERS, Justice.

The appellee, James Alva Daniel, brought this suit in the District Court of Henderson County against the appellant, Highlands Insurance Company, to recover on a compensation claim for an alleged back injury received while working for his employer, Brown & Root, Inc. The injury was alleged to have occurred on July 23, 1964. The trial was to a jury and, based upon the jury verdict, the trial court entered judgment for appellee for total incapacity beginning on the date of the injury and continuing for a period of 364 weeks, the judgment being for appellee in the sum of…