Wallace v. Texas Indemnity Ins. Co.

PELPHREY, Chief Justice.

- On May 8, 1934, T. G. Wallace secured employment as a common laborer with the Phillips Petroleum Company at its Jud-kins Gasoline Plant in Ector county, Tex. The Phillips Petroleum Company had a bunkhouse for the use of some of its men for sleeping quarters. There was no charge made for the use of the bunk-i house, and the men were not required to sleep there. In the early afternoon of July 20, 1934, while Wallace and two of his fellow employees were in it, the bunkhouse caught fire and Wallace was burned so badly that he died shortly thereafter at a hospital in…