Highway Casualty Co. v. Reid

BOYD, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Appellee W. D. Reid recovered judgment for compensation for total and permanent disability.

Appellant Highway Casualty Company, the insurance carrier, assigns as error the overruling of its motions for instructed verdict and for judgment non obstante ver-edicto because it contends that it was shown as a matter of law that appellee was an independent contractor and not an employee; the overruling of its motion for new trial on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to support either the verdict or the judgment; and that it was error to…