Griffin v. Texas Employers' Insurance Association

POPE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Edd Griffin, sued Texas Employers’ Insurance Association to recover workmen’s compensation for the total loss of use of his right eye. Sec. 12, Art. 8306, Vernon’s Ann.Tex.Civ.Stats. After the plaintiff presented his evidence, the trial court sustained defendant’s motion for instructed verdict. The motion asserted there was no evidence that the injury which plaintiff sustained was the producing cause of the loss of use of the eye. The defendant stated, as a reason that there was no evidence, that plaintiff failed to present any evidence of producing cause through a…