Travelers Insurance Company v. Heim

DAVIS, Justice.

A compensation case. Plaintiff-appellee, Nell Heim, sued defendant-appellant because of an accidental injury she sustained on January 8, 1965, while she was employed by the Blue Buckle Overall Company, Inc., of Marshall, Harrison County, Texas. She alleged that the injury occurred while she was pulling real hard on a heavy piece of material and hurt her left hand, arm, entire body and nervous system. Appellant took the position that the injury occurred only to her left arm below her elbow and, in the alternative, to the loss of the use of her left arm.

*797Trial was to a jury which…