Fidelity Union Casualty Co. v. Martin

This is an action by the widow of a deceased employee to recover under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 8306 et seq.). The employee, Robert Martin, died suddenly after moving a bale of cotton by hand truck in the course of his employment with an insured employer. His widow, Mrs. Martha Martin, recovered judgment in a proceeding conceded to have been regularly instituted in the court below, and the insurer, Fidelity Union Casualty Company, has appealed.

In its first assignment of error appellant complains of the admission of the testimony of a…