Texas Supreme Court

First Employees Insurance Company, Petitioner v. Jessie E. Skinner, Respondent

February 9, 198326 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 225

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that Rule 281 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure mandatorily requires that all admitted exhibits be sent to the jury room during deliberations, and that the trial court’s failure to do so was harmless error. Accordingly, the Court affirmed the judgment awarding workers’ compensation benefits to Jessie Skinner.