Smith v. Spence & Son Drilling Company

SADLER, Justice.

The defendants below being the employer and insurer in the trial of a claim for Workmen’s Compensation prosecuted before the district court of Eddy County, complain before this court, as appellants, of a judgment rendered against them upon the verdicts of a jury returned into court at the conclusion of the trial.

The injury on account of which the claim is prosecuted took place on April 3, 1954. The plaintiff was 37 years of age at time of the accidental injury of which he complains.'- He .was married and the father of two children. He had substituted for another man on two…