Johnson v. Lone Star Cement Corp.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Wilbert H. Johnson, a painter, instituted this suit against his employer, the defendant, Lone Star Cement Corporation, endeavoring to recover workmen’s compensation of $20.00 per week for a period of four hundred weeks. Plaintiff claimed that he was totally and permanently disabled as a result of severe burns incurred to both of his hands and left wrist on November 3, 1947, when he accidently contacted an exposed electrical wire while painting a “traveling crane” owned by the defendant.

Defendant answered admitting the accident and resulting injury, but denied that…