Employees Lloyds v. Schott

YOUNG, Justice.

Appellee’s workman’s compensation suit, upon jury trial and verdict, resulted in judgment for total and permanent disability, payable in one lump sum, from which the employer’s carrier of insurance (appellants) have seasonably appealed.

Concerning the character of his injuries and how sustained, appellee alleged that, on or about May 30, 1942, he was pursuing his regular duties as an employee of Gifford-Hill Pipe Line Company in lifting sacks of cement from flooring where they were stacked, to a concrete mixer; and, while in the act of lifting said sack and sacks of cement, “ *…