Huval v. Sexton Corp.

On the first trial of this case, a compensation suit, the court rendered judgment against defendant for partial disability, and, on the second, granted on a motion for a rehearing; plaintiff was allowed compensation for total disability which is claimed in his petition.

Plaintiff, at the time he was hurt, was employed in laying gas pipe lines for defend-, ant company.

He. Says he had gotten down in a ditch where the pipes were being laid, and, when injured, was standing in water which covered his boots. He testifies that he was digging in the ditch with a shovel; that, as he tried to get out of…