Insurance Company of North America v. Kneten

440 S.W.2d 52 (1969)

INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, Petitioner,

v.

W. A. KNETEN, Respondent.

No. B-1120.

Supreme Court of Texas.

January 22, 1969.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1969.

Branscomb, Gary, Thomasson & Hall, Gary Norton, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Butler, Schraub & Gandy, Roger Butler, Corpus Christi, for respondent.

REAVLEY, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case involving the problem of proof of causal connection between a job connected occurrence and the employee's disability. The occurrence here centers on an electric shock received by the employee, and his subsequent…