Lee v. Texas General Indemnity Co.

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding total and permanent worker’s compensation benefits to Petitioner E. V. Lee for a back injury he sustained in December 1973 while employed by Chemical Express Carrier Company. The Court of Civil Appeals has reversed and remanded. 570 S.W.2d 231.

Prior to this suit, Mr. Lee had received a judgment for another back injury in October 1975, almost two years after the injury involved in the instant case. At the former trial he testified under oath that the 1975 injury was the sole cause of his incapacity. The Court of Civil Appeals…