Hayes v. Commercial Standard Ins. Co.

BROWN, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case that has caused us no little concern.

We apologize for not having decided the case sooner, but our desire to reach an unanimous conclusion, after repeated consultations, has prompted the delay.

*252Mattie Mae Burleson, an unmarried minor, was employed as a waitress, in the Coffee Shop of the Texas Hotel (of Fort Worth) and on or about November 29th, 1937, claims that she sustained a fall, by slipping on a wet, “slick” place, from which she sustained bodily injuries. Her chief complaint is that the fall tore her uterus from its natural place,…