Federal Underwriters Exchange v. Green

YOUNG, Justice.

In a suit arising under workmen’s compensation, the jury verdict established total and permanent incapacity of the employee Green, following accidental injuries, payable in a lump sum; and from judgment to that effect, appeal is taken by the insurer.

Circumstances surrounding the injuries in question were these: Mr. Green, plaintiff, had been employed by the Fort Worth Structural Steel Company at McKinney for several weeks, on a high school construction job. He was engaged in running a jack — a lifting process — at the time, under the direction of his foreman, when a wooden 2x6…