J. A. Robinson Sons, Inc. v. Wigart

CHAPMAN, Justice.

Helen O. Wigart, her two minor children and the minor child of her deceased husband by a former marriage brought suit against J. A. Robinson Sons, Inc., for the wrongful death of William Robert Wigart, their husband and father. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, the workmen’s compensation carrier for Wigart’s employer intervened to assert its recoupment rights under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Wigart, an employee of Bo-man-Chase, was killed on August 1, 1963, when a welding shed fell from a flat-bed truck owned by Robinson and driven by Chester Britain, and struck…