Watts v. Texas Employers' Ins.

W. T. Watts, a builder by trade of steel oil tanks, was employed by the Texas Pipe Line Company to assist in the construction of one of its oil tanks. According to allegations in his pleading, while he was tightening a rivet with a wrench, sitting on one foot which was doubled under him, and owing to a defect in the rivet and nut, the wrench slipped, and as a consequence he fell over and injured his hip and lower part of his spinal column and the tendons and muscles of his back and left leg and knee. According to further allegations, after such injury, he continued to work at lighter work for…