Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Ebers

FOLLEY, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit in which the appellee, Harry J. Ebers, is the claimant, the Phillips Petroleum Company, the employer, and the appellant, Texas Employers Insurance Association, the insurance carrier. In a trial before a jury the appellee recovered a judgment in the sum of $1,478.29, such sum representing compensation for a total disability at the rate of $9.75 per week for 151 weeks from September 9, 1937, the date of the alleged injury. In such judgment appellee’s attorneys were protected for their attorneys fees. The $9.75 was 60% of the $16.32 found by…