Muro v. Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance Co.

POPE, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. The main point is whether the trial court correctly held that no' evidence supports jury findings of total and permanent incapacity to Solomon Muro’s back. Plaintiff claimed and obtained jury findings for both a general injury and a specific foot injury. Muro moved for judgment for the general injury, but the trial court rendered judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

Muro fell from a scaffold on January 28, 1955. The jury found that he sustained an accidental injury to his back which produced an incapacity to work, and that the incapacity…