Highlands Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Martin

KEITH, Justice.

The appeal is by the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier from a judgment awarding the appellee judgment as and for total and permanent disability for injuries he received while in the course of his employment by Levingston Shipbuilding Company. The parties will be designated as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff sustained his injury when he stepped into a hole in the deck of the ship upon which he was working, dropping about two or three feet therein, severely scraping the flesh from his left leg. He was examined by the first aid attendant at the shipyard and taken…