Wolff v. Travelers Insurance Co.

PHILLIPS, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case wherein the claimant, appellant here, sustained a back injury when he fell off a bus chassis during the course of his employment for Ward Body Works of Austin. Trial was to a jury which found that as a result of the injury to his back claimant was totally and permanently' incapacitated. The jury further found that a proposed surgical operation designed to fuse the lower part of his lumbar spine would not materially improve his condition and that such an operation would be more than ordinarily unsafe for claimant to undergo. The trial…