SMITH v. SPENCE & SON DRILLING COMPANY

No. 6097.

301 P.2d 723 (1956)

61 N.M. 431

Sherman S. SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SPENCE & SON DRILLING COMPANY, Employer, Travelers Insurance Company, Carrier, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

September 19, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.T. Hanners, Lovington, for appellants.

Lon P. Watkins, Carlsbad, Jack Underwood, Lovington, for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

The defendants below being the employer and insurer in the trial of a claim for Workmen's Compensation prosecuted before the district court of Eddy County, complain before this court, as appellants, of a judgment rendered against them upon the verdicts of a jury returned into court at the conclusion of the trial.

The injury on account of which the claim is prosecuted took place on April 3, 1954. The plaintiff was 37 years of age at time of...

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