Banks v. Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Texas

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation Law case.

Tom Turner Banks was injured when he jumped down into the bed of a truck he was helping to unload for his employer, Bloch Metals, Inc. Prerequisite claim proceedings before the Industrial Accident Board were exhausted, and Banks instituted a suit in the District Court of Morris County to recover Workmen’s Compensation Law benefits from his employer’s compensation insurance carrier, The Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Texas.

Banks’ trial pleading alleged that he “seriously injured his right knee, leg, hip and back, and…