Aetna Insurance Company v. Giddens

CADENA, Justice.

This is an appeal by Aetna Insurance Company from a judgment, based on a jury verdict, awarding appellee, Johnny H. Gid-dens, the maximum compensation allowable under our Workmen’s Compensation Act for a general injury resulting in total and permanent disability.

The jury found that appellee had not worked in the same or similar employment as that in which he was engaged at the time of his injury for at least 210 days during the year preceding the injury (issue 16); that there was no employee in Bexar County, Texas doing the same or similar work who had worked for 210 days or…