TEXAS EMP. INS. ASS'N v. CLAPPER

No. 17632.

605 S.W.2d 938 (1980)

TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. Dawn Lenore CLAPPER, Indiv. A/N/F for Verlene Luann Clapper, Minor et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied September 4, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbert, Giessel & Stone, Robert L. Ramey, Alice Giessel, Houston, for appellant.

Gibson, Spain & Minor, Mainess Gibson, Houston, for appellees.

Before EVANS, PEDEN and WARREN, JJ.


EVANS, Justice.

This is a worker's compensation death case.

On the day of his death William Clapper was an employee of Chemical Refining Corporation, working as a welder on an elevated pipe rack at a Petro-Tex plant. The central issue at the trial was whether Clapper's death was due to electrocution.

The jury found in favor of the plaintiff in response to the following special issues:

SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 1 Do you find from a preponderance...

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