Elliott v. American Motorists Insurance Co.

BILL BASS, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case. We will affirm the trial court’s judgment.

The appellant Elliott fell twenty or thirty feet onto a concrete floor landing on both feet. He suffered comminuted fractures of the calcaneus bones in both heels. The jury found that Elliott’s injuries resulted in *718the total and permanent loss of the use of both feet. Elliott moved for judgment, contending that the total loss of the use of both feet was, under Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 8306, § 11a (Vernon 1967), conclusive of his total and permanent disability and that he was therefore entitled…