American Motorists Insurance Company v. Williams

RENFRO, Justice.

Based on jury findings of total and permanent disability, judgment was entered for plaintiff Ernestine Williams against defendant American Motorists Insurance Company.

No complaint is made by defendant that the evidence is insufficient to support the jury findings.

Defendant’s first two points of error are based on the action of the court in permitting plaintiff’s counsel to read into evidence passages from a medical treatise, and in failing to instruct the jury that such passages were not to be considered as direct evidence of the truth of the matters therein stated.

During the…