Legal Opinion
United States Fire Insurance Co. v. Alvarez
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 29, 1983No. 16887PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BUTTS, Justice.
This is a worker’s compensation 1 case. On August 9, 1978, Tranquilino Alvarez, a migrant farm worker from Laredo, arrived in Dell City to work at a 14,000 acre farm owned and operated by C.L. Machinery Company, Inc. (C.L.M. Farms). Alvarez, sixty-one years of age, earned $2.65 an hour, his principal jobs being to keep the packing machines in the packing shed operational and to ice down the boxed cantaloupes after they were loaded onto the trucks during cantaloupe season.
An ice machine crushed three hundred pound blocks of ice while Alvarez grasped the two metal handles…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Hernandez v. HeldenfelsTexas Supreme Court · 1963
- Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. PageTexas Supreme Court · 1977
- Texas Employers Insurance v. McKayTexas Supreme Court · 1948
- Swinney v. WintersCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
- Robichaux v. Realty Operators, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
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3Cited by9 opinions
- LaChance v. HollenbeckCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Holguin v. Billy the Kid Produce, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1990
- Tanner v. Bosque Honey Farm, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1995
- INA of Texas/now CIGNA Insurance Co. of Texas v. AdamsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1990
- Courtney v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'nCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986
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