Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Carnine

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a worker’s compensation case based on a jury verdict for the plaintiff. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association (Texas Employers’) appeals. The judgment will be affirmed.

Samuel W. Camine asserts that he was injured while in the course of his employment by Southern Pacific Transportation Company as a truck driver and loader. While loading a truck on October 14, 1976, he injured his back. He was examined the next day by Dr. Malcolm Granberry, and was subsequently hospitalized for treatment.

*392In answer to special issues, the jury…