INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA v. KNETEN

No. B-1120.

440 S.W.2d 52 (1969)

INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, Petitioner, v. W. A. KNETEN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Branscomb, Gary, Thomasson & Hall, Gary Norton, Corpus Christi, for petitioner.

Butler, Schraub & Gandy, Roger Butler, Corpus Christi, for respondent.


REAVLEY, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case involving the problem of proof of causal connection between a job connected occurrence and the employee's disability. The occurrence here centers on an electric shock received by the employee, and his subsequent disability is due to a damaged heart.

On the strength of the testimony by the plaintiff and his treating doctor, the jury found that the injury received in the course of employment was a producing...

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