TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Hinkle

HAMILTON, Chief Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case, wherein S. J. Hinkle, Jr., appellee herein and plaintiff below, sued Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, appellant herein and defendant below, as the result of injuries sustained by him in the course of his employment for Haynes & V-T Drilling Company, on February 14, 1954. Based upon favorable answers by the jury to special issues, judgment was entered for plaintiff-appellee in a lump' sum, allowing recovery for total and permanent disability, less credit for the amount theretofore paid by appellant.

Appellee alleged that he…