General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation v. Hames

BATEMAN, Justice.

The appellees D. L. Hames and wife filed this suit under Section 5a of Article 8307 * to enforce an award of the Industrial Accident Board of Texas ordering the appellant to pay accrued compensation benefits in the sum of $420 and “medical, hospital and doctor bills incurred as a result of the occupational disease sustained on or about 4-1-64, 4-20-64, and 5-2-64.” At the end of a nonjury trial judgment was rendered against appellant for $1,898.45, of which $420 was for the compensation benefits, $605.40 was for medical expenses, $123.05 was penalty and $750 was attorneys’…