Maryland Casualty Co. v. Clark

COMBS, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation insurance case. Appellee, Johnnie Clark, recovered judgment for total permanent disability in a lump sum of $2,999, he having limited his claim by his pleadings to .that amount.

While employed by the Texas Company at its Port Arthur refinery appellee took ill with pneumonia and spent seventy-two days in the hospital. Section of a rib was removed to permit' drainage of pus from the pleural cavity; adhesions and other damage to the lungs and chest resulted. This suit is predicated upon the theory that the -pneumonia developed from an injury to the…