Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Stanley

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

This is the usual workmen’s compensation case. The trial resulted in a judgment favorable to the plaintiff, Scott Weldon Stanley, the injured employee, against the carrier, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, prosecuting this appeal.

The appeal is predicated upon two alleged errors; first, the court’s exclusion of certain evidence, and, second, misconduct of the jury.

In the first assignment, it is insisted that “the court erred in refusing to permit the defendant to introduce evidence that the plaintiff, on the 11th day of August, 1939, which was some time after the…