Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Russell

DUNKLIN,' Chief Justice.

T. E. Mercer was engaged in the general trucking, teaming, and contracting business, using various truck drivers, and driving trucks of various sizes and makes for the transportation of oil field equipments, materials, and other wares for hire through Van Zandt county and other parts of East Texas.

In order to carry on that business, Mercer hired a large number of workmen and carried insurance under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8309 et seq.), with the Traders & General Insurance Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the…