TEXAS EMPLOYERS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Cowan

BOYD, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Appellee F. P. Cowan obtained a judgment against appellant Texas Employers’ Insurance Association for 14 weeks total disability and for 55 per -cent partial disability for 156 weeks. Appellee alleged total and permanent disability as the result of an accidental injury sustained on July 3, 1953.

Appellee was an employee of a painting contractor and was applying lacquer to a door inside a building. A pot of lacquer had been placed on a stepladder near ap-pellee. A co-worker moved the ladder, and the pot of lacquer was thereby caused to fall,…