Hawkins v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

BOYD, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. James Hawkins, Jr., sued Aetna Casualty & Surety Company for compensation for total and permanent disability and recovered a verdict and judgment for seventy weeks of total temporary disability. Hawkins appealed.

The injury suffered by appellant resulted in a hernia. Appellee did not admit liability nor tender surgery. On appellant’s motion, the court entered an order in limine instructing appellee, its agents, counsel and witnesses “not to mention before the jury, nor in any way refer to any possible beneficial effects, if any, that surgery…