Iowa Mutual Insurance Company v. Redden

WILSON, Justice.

In a workmen’s compensation case the court sustained appellee’s motion to disregard a jury finding favorable to appellant on the issue of whether there was another employee who had worked substantially the whole of the year preceding the date of accident.

The evidence and jury findings negatived subsection 1 of Art. 8309, Sec. 1, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Stats. No issue was submitted as to average weekly wage of another employee under subsection 2 of the statute. To the issue on a “just and fair” average weekly wage under subsection 3, the jury answered $75. Having disregarded the…