Great American Indemnity Co. v. Sams

COMBS, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. The claimant, M. Sams, suffered an injury while cleaning an oil tank. He slipped and fell to the floor on some pipes, fracturing his left wrist. The particular damage to the wrist and arm was alleged in detail and by pleading and proof the issue was made that plaintiff suffered a general disability because of the extension of the results of such injury throughout his body. The insurance carrier’s principal defense was that the plaintiff sustained only a specific injury, loss of the use of the left arm. The jury returned a verdict of…