Court Opinion

ID: 9827074
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 17:07:25.28034+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:22.311605
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
 Appellee insists that his cause of action as pleaded involved not only the specific provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act relating to hernia, but also the provisions relating to injuries received generally in the course of his employment. We have no doubt about our construction of his petition, but do not review it further, since under the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Ormsby v. Ratcliffe, 1 S.W.(2d) 1084, such additional grounds of relief were waived, even had they been pleaded. Appellee sent his case to the jury only on the issues given in our original opinion. He made no request for the submission of any issue under the general provisions of the statute. Having sent his case to the jury on issues relating alone to hernia, any other ground of relief was specifically waived. It cannot be presumed, under article 2190, Revised Statutes 1925, construed in the Ormsby Case, supra, that the court found, independent of the jury’s verdict, facts to support a judgment under the general provisions of our Workmen’s Compensation Act. In the case cited it was said:
“It is a proper legal presumption that all correlated, supplemental, and supporting facts should be found in favor of a judgment, but separate and independent grounds of recovery not so submitted can not be so presumed to exist, but must be held to have been waived by the party failing to ask their submission.”
What we have said makes certain our original conclusions, unless a plea under the specific provisions of the statute necessarily involves the essentials of an injury under the general provisions; and, the proof failing to support a specific injury, yet raising, an issue under the general provisions, the case should go to the jury. We do not think that construction should be given our Workmen’s Compensation Act. Under that act, as in all other cases, the probata must conform to the allegata. A recovery, if had, must be on the allegations of the petition. Having pleaded a specific injury, and only a specific injury, the proof must sustain the allegations, or the plaintiff necessarily loses his case. True, he could plead a specific injury and in the alternative an injury under the general provisions, in which event, failing to sustain his first count, he could on proper proof go to the jury on the second; but under such pleadings, if the plaintiff sent his case to the jury on issues submitting only a specific injury, as was done here, and the jury found against him, it would be said on appeal that he had waived his claim under the general provisions,
The motion for rehearing is overruled,