Texas Employers Insurance Association v. Thomas

BARROW, Chief Justice.

Appellant has perfected its appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict whereby appellee recovered workmen’s compensation benefits for a period of 401 weeks at the rate of $49.00 per week. The jury found that appellee received an injury on or about April 8, 1971, in the course of his employment for the H. B. Zachry Company, which was the producing cause of total and permanent incapacity.

Appellant complains of this judgment and specifically of the order overruling its amended motion for new trial by seventeen assignments of error. The first five points urge that the…