Choate v. American Motorist Insurance Co.

McNEILL, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case and is the outgrowth of an injury to his left leg sustained on October 17, 1957, while appellant was working in the Magnolia Refinery of Beaumont as a boilermaker for C. F. Braun & Company. The injury was sustained when appellant was operating a grinding machine and the grinder broke. Some of the pieces of the grinder thereupon striking his left knee caused a cut or two in his leg just below the knee. His injury was treated by a Beaumont physician; he missed one day from work and then returned to lighter work. He testified that he was put…