Emmons v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

COE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a plea to the jurisdiction and dismissing a suit brought by appellant, Jessie V. Emmons, in the district court of Orange county, Texas, against appellee, Pacific Indemnity Company, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq. The plea to the jurisdiction was sustained on the theory that the evidence showed that if the plaintiff received an injury that the injury occurred upon a navigable stream while plaintiff was engaged in maritime service and, therefore, it was within the exclusive jurisdiction…