Millers' Mut. Casualty Co. v. Hoover
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fifth Supreme Judicial District. Proceedings under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Mrs. Louise E. Hoover, opposed by the G. B. Smith Milling Company, employer, and the Millers’ Mutual Casualty Company, insurer. An award of compensation was sustained by the Court of Civil Appeals (216 S. W. 475), and insurer brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLENDON, P. J.
The sole question presented in this case is whether an employé of a corporation is precluded from the benefits of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as amended by the Act March 28, 1917 (Laws 1917, c. 103 [Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, arts. 5246 — 1 to 5246 — 91]) by virtue of his also being a director of the employing corporation.
The facts of the case as found by the Court of Civil Appeals follow:
“The G. B. Smith Milling Company is a private domestic corporation, and conducts a flour mill at Sherman. It had a board of seven directors, consisting of G. B. Smith, Guy Frank Hoover, and five…
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- Millers' Mut. Casualty Co. v. HooverCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919
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