Howell v. Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance Co.

*925OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff Howell, from judgment for plaintiff for 50%. permanent partial loss of use of his right foot, in a workman’s compensation case, plaintiff asserting that under the jury verdict, he was entitled to a judgment for total permanent disability.

Plaintiff alleged that while in the course of his employment as a painter a scaffold broke, causing him to fall violently to the ground below; that “the impact caused him to be severely injured about his right foot and about his spine and back and body generally, including the muscles, ligaments…