Yates v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

Appellant instituted this suit in the District Court of Cherokee County to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board, and sought compensation for the total and permanent loss of the use of his left leg. The trial was to a jury upon special issues. To special issue No. 1, the jury found that appellant did not sustain an accidental injury to his leg below the knee on or about August 8, 1944, the date of the alleged injury; and to special issue No. 18, the jury answered that if appellant sustained any loss of the use of his left leg, such loss of use was due solely…