Whitfield v. Traders & General Ins. Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

This is the second appeal of this workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiff, J. B. Whitfield, alleged that he was the employee of Maytag Southwestern Company; that defendant, Traders & General Insurance Company, was the insurer; and that plaintiff received an injury to his eye in the course of his employment with Maytag Company, resulting in the loss of the eye. The first appeal was from an instructed verdict and.judgment upon the theory that the evidence showed as a matter of law that plaintiff was not the employee of Maytag Company when he received the injury to his eye; which…