Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Roys

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The appellee, C. G. Roys, was the employee; the appellant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, was the compensation insurance carrier and Norman L. Larson was the employer.

The injury complained of happened on April 5, 1954 while appellee and other employees were engaged in assembling heavy steel spans to be used as reinforcing in the making of concrete piling and it was alleged that each of these spans weighed from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds.' While the employees were moving one of the spans somehow there was extra weight placed upon…