TEXAS EMP. INS. ASS'N v. Thompson

610 S.W.2d 208 (1980)

TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Appellant,

v.

Thomas David THOMPSON, Appellee.

No. 17757.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

December 4, 1980.

Rehearing Denied January 2, 1981.

Mills, Shirley, McMicken & Eckel, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., Galveston, for appellant.

Stephen W. Hanks, Helm, Pletcher, Hogan & Burrow, Houston, for appellee.

Before COLEMAN, C. J., and DOYLE and WALLACE, JJ.

DOYLE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding worker's compensation benefits to Thomas David Thompson.

Thompson, a painter-sandblaster, was on the job as an employee…