Legal Opinion

Spillers v. City of Houston

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided August 31, 1989No. 01-88-01038-CVPublished

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case.

The appellant sought workers’ compensation benefits for three separate injuries he sustained while working for the City of Houston. A jury found that the appellant sustained compensable injuries on the three dates alleged, and that two of the injuries were a producing cause of temporary periods of total incapacity. But the jury failed to find that the appellant sustained any permanent partial incapacity as a result of such accidents. Because the City had already paid weekly compensation benefits for the periods of the…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Cain v. BainTexas Supreme Court · 1986
  2. Garza v. AlviarTexas Supreme Court · 1965
  3. Benoit v. WilsonTexas Supreme Court · 1951
  4. Herbert v. HerbertTexas Supreme Court · 1988
  5. Lofton v. Texas Brine Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 1986

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