Charter Oak Fire Insurance Co. v. Taylor

OPINION

LEVY, Justice.

Appellant seeks reversal of the trial court’s judgment ordering it to pay workers’ compensation benefits for total and permanent disability to appellee, George B. Taylor, for a back injury he incurred while in the course and scope of his employment with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company-

In its sole point of error, appellant complains of the refusal by the trial court to submit its tendered instruction to the jury relating to “sole cause.” 1 Appellant contended that a pre-existing back condition, rather than the injury sustained in the slip- and-fall accident, was…