Employers Reinsurance Corp. v. Brooks

O’QUINN, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Frost Lumber Industries, Inc., was the employer, appellee, M. L. Brooks, the employee, and appellant the compensation insurance carrier.

Among other things, appellee alleged that on or about February 11, 1941, he was engaged in the scope of his employment in attending a flooring machine in his employer’s sawmill, and that it was his duty to tie the flooring lumber as it came out of the machine into bundles and place them in piles or stacks; that when he would catch up with that particular work he would do other jobs in and around the…