Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Hooten

CADENA, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case defendant, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., appeals from a judgment, based on a jury verdict, awarding plaintiff, Lillie M. Hooten, compensation for injuries suffered by her.

The only questions before us concern the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury findings that plaintiff, at the time of her injury, was the employee of defendant’s insured, Del Rio Nursing Home and that, at such time, she was acting within the course of her employment.

Plaintiff is a nurse’s aid. She had worked as a nurse’s aid in hospitals…