Southern Underwriters v. Freeman

O’QUINN, Justice.

This is a compensation suit: Appellee, C. W. Freeman, was the employee; appellant, The Southern-Underwriters, the alleged compensation insurance carrier; Neches Lumber- Company, the alleged employer. On trial to a jury judgment was entered in appellee’s favor for compensation for 130 weeks at $9 per week. Appellant has duly prosecuted its appeal to this court from the judgment of the lower court.

Appellant was the compensation insurance carrier of Neches Lumber Company. We sustain the proposition that, at the time appellee was injured, he was not the employee of Neches Lumber…