Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Hamor

HALL, Chief Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation suit. Lee Hamor, appellee, sued the appellant, alleging in substance that on December 9, 1934, while an employee working for the Western Carbon Company in Gray County, he accidentally fell several feet down the stairs in his employer’s building to a concrete floor, and sustained injuries which rendered him totally and permanently disabled.

The case was tried to a jury, submitted upon special issues, and resulted in a judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $3,951.68. He was awarded compensation in a lump sum, together with interest and…