Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Courtney

HUGHES, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the only point presented here is whether or not the Trial Court correctly refused to permit appellant, Hardware Mutual Casualty Company, to plead, and to introduce evidence in support thereof, the question of whether a surgical operation if performed upon appellee, Mrs. Claudine Courtney, will effect a cure or will materially and beneficially improve her physical condition.

Mrs. Claudine Courtney was an employee of Gem Fabric Shop in Travis County, Texas, when, October 5, 1959, she was accidently injured while in the course and…