Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Stateler

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. S.D. Stateler brought this action seeking to recover total and permanent disability benefits resulting from an injury sustained by him on July 20, 1967 while employed by Prewitt & McFaul Masonry Contractors, Inc., whose workmen’s compensation insurance was carried by Texas Employers’ Insurance Association. In his original petition, Stateler alleged that he sustained a general injury to his right knee, right leg and back brought about by a falling rock which struck his knee and caused him to fall. The insurance company responded,…