Carper v. Texas Compensation Ins.

STRUM, District Judge.

This action arises under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act.

Plaintiff, a switchboard operator employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, on April 29, 1928, caught her heel on a broken step on the employee’s stairway, and fell to the bottom of the stairs, some twenty feet, injuring her back and probably a kidney. She suffered much pain in her back and underwent treatment at home and in a hospital, remaining in bed until July, 1928. On September 27, 1928, she went back to work in her former employment, *573although she says she was still suffering pain and not really…