HOWARD v. EL PASO NATURAL GAS CO.

No. 5296.

646 P.2d 1248 (1982)

98 N.M. 184

Donald HOWARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a Texas Corporation, Employer, and the Hartford Insurance Company, Insuror, Defendants-AppellesS.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied June 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turner W. Branch, Branch, Perkal & Associates, Albuquerque, for plaintiff-appellant.

James T. Roach, Klecan & Roach, Albuquerque, for defendants-appellees.


OPINION

NEAL, Judge.

In this workmen's compensation action the trial court found plaintiff to be forty percent permanently partially disabled and also found that the disability began on the date of injury.

We affirm.

Plaintiff, aged fifty-four years, was injured on January 23, 1978, while driving a grader for the defendant-employer, and in the process of clearing snow the grader struck a stump, jerked suddenly and hit an embankment. From...

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