Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Eskue

OPINION

PRESLAR, Chief Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case involving questions of the form of requests for issues and instructions, and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a finding that a specific injury extended to and caused a general injury. The trial Court awarded damages for total and permanent disability in the amount of $19,649.00, less a credit of $6,713.00 which had been paid to claimant. We reverse and remand.

The claimant suffered an injury when a drill bit fell from a rack and struck him breaking his right leg some four or five inches above the ankle. The injury was…