29 S.W.2d 1051 | Tex. Comm'n App. | 1930
This is a suit for compensation for a specific injury (the loss of an eye) under the
In the view we have taken of this case the only question involved is whether the right to compensation for a specific injury survived to the estate of the injured employee, under the agreed facts. This exact question, under a state of facts very similar, is involved in the case of Federal Surety Co. v. Alice Pitts et ah, pending in the Court of Civil Appeals of the First District at Galveston, which court, in the case of U. S. F. & G. Co. v. Salser, 224 S. W. 557, reached the conclusion that such right does not survive. In view of its opinion in the Salser Case, and also of the opinion in Moore v. Lumbermqn’s Reciprocal Association (Tex. Com. App.) 258 S. W. 1051, wherein a somewhat similar question was involved, that court certified the question to the Supreme Court, which we have recently answered, 29 S.W.(2d) 1046, and in which we reached the conclusion, after rather an extended discussion of the question, that the right does survive. We do not think it necessary to write at length upon the question in this case, preferring to adopt as our opinion the conclusion we reached in the Pitts Oa'se, from which it follows that the Court of Civil Appeals erred in the conclusion it reached.
However, it becomes necessary to reform the judgment rendered by the district court, in view of the fact that it appears that the plaintiff in error is entitled, at this time, to a judgment for the full amount of the recovery, as the time for the payment of the compensation for the 28 weeks mentioned in the judgment of the district court has now elapsed, and each of the several installments has matured.
We recommend that the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals he reversed, and that the judgment of the district court be so modified as to give the plaintiff in error a judgment, in addition to the sum of $1,497.60 with 6 per cent, interest thereon from the 28th day of February, 1929, for the further sum of '$570.50, being the accrued amount under .the judgment of the district court up to the present time, with interest thereon from the date of the rendition of this judgment at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum and all costs of the ■suit, and, as so modified, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed.
The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals is reversed and the judgment of the district court is reformed, and as reformed is affirmed.