Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Dryden

DIES, Chief Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. Dorman Dryden was killed while he was an employee of Trotti & Thomson, a construction firm. Subsequently, his widow, Brenda, for herself and a minor daughter, Den-na, as plaintiffs below, sued Texas Employers’ Insurance Association (insurer), defendant below, for death benefits. Plaintiffs were given judgment from which defendant brings this appeal. The parties will be referred to in this opinion as they were below.

Defendant’s first two points of error urge there was no, or insufficient, evidence that the deceased was in the course and…