Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Courtney

GREENHILL, Justice.

' This is a workmen’s -compensation case. The Question is whether the triál court acted correctly in instructing’counsel for the insurer not to mention' to the jury that the injured employee ever refused to súbmit to a myelogram' or surgery or- that an operation iqight 'cure or benefit her condition. The answer to this question depends upon whether the insurer properly demanded or tendered an operation and whether it admitted liability in such a way as to make the proffered testimony admissible.

After a trial by jury, the employee recovered a judgment for total and permanent…