Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. United States Torpedo Co.

This is a suit for mandamus instituted by defendant in error in the district court of Travis county, to compel plaintiff in error, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, to issue a policy of insurance, in accordance with the terms of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. St. 1925, arts. 8306-8309, as amended), covering defendant in error’s employees. The petition contained all the necessary averments to entitle defendant in error to the writ, unless plaintiff in error had the right to decline to issue such policy, as it did, upon the ground that the business in which defendant in error was…