CITY OF AUSTIN v. POWELL

No. 10409.

294 S.W.2d 216 (1956)

CITY OF AUSTIN, Appellant, v. Leroy POWELL, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1956.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied October 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doren R. Eskew, City Atty., Robert J. Potts, Jr., Thomas P. de Steiguer, Asst. City Attys., Austin, for appellant.

Jerry LeMond, Victor B. Rogers, Austin, for appellee.


GRAY, Justice.

This is a workman's compensation case wherein appellee recovered a judgment at a jury trial for permanent total disability.

Appellant became self-insured under the Workman's Compensation Law on February 1, 1955. Appellee sustained an accidental injury to his right knee on January 14, 1955, while in the course of his employment with appellant. On that day he and other employees were laying concrete sewer pipe and appellee while handling a piece...

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