Gulf Casualty Co. v. Fields

NEALON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Winkler County, Tex., awarding to appellee the sum of $5,.310.43 in a lump sum as workman’s compensation on the basis of total and permanent incapacity. For convenience, the appellant will be referred to as defendant, and the appellee as plaintiff.

On February 13, 1936, plaintiff was- an employee of the .Gulf Refining Company and engaged, along with other workmen, in the work of laying a pipe line from a point in Winkler'county, Tex., to a point in the state of New Mexico. Defendant was workmen’s compensation,…