TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N v. Haywood

We granted petitioner’s application for writ of error to review rulings of the Court of Civil Appeals, 266 S.W. 2d 499, on points of error involving improper argument of counsel for respondent.

Respondent, a negro, as plaintiff in the trial court, sought to recover benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, Article 8306 Vernon’s Civ. Stat., for a general disability alleged by him and found by the jury to be total and permanent in character.

In rebuttal or respondent’s testimony that since his injury he was unable to turn his head from a fixed position, held throughout the trial, because of…