Postal Mut. Indemnity Co. v. Ellis

COMBS, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case, with appellee, K. E. Ellis, as the employee, appellant, Postal Mutual Indemnity Company, the compensation insurance carrier, and Bellar-Smalley, Inc., the employer. Upon appropriate jury findings of total, permanent disability, judgment was entered in favor of appellee for $2,962.82, plus $57.81 accrued interest, payable in a lump sum. Of this amount two-thirds was decreed to appellee and one-third to his attorneys, Adams & Hillin.

The most serious matter presented on this appeal is the contention of appellant that the trial judge was…