Ruddell v. Charter Oak Fire Insurance Co.

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

On March 1, 1970, Mrs. Sallie Jo Rud-dell, while employed at a Safeway Food Store in Longview,. Texas, and while in the furtherance of her employer’s affairs and the performance of her duties, slipped and fell as she was carrying food products into the store’s cooler. Mrs. Ruddell, in her brief, says that she “fell on her hips very hard and her foot struck a metal table leg. * * * She looked at her left foot immediately thereafter and saw that it was twisted and turned, and appeared to be broken. At that time her hips were hurting worse than her foot.” She timely…