Gorman v. American General Ins. Co.

NORVELL, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. Judgment on an instructed verdict was rendered in favor of the insurance carrier,, American General Insurance Company.

The case is submitted here upon the brief of appellant, Mollie Gorman, widow of Fayette Gorman, deceased. At the time of his death, on May 8, 1943, Fay-ette Gorman was about sixty-four years; of age and employed as a janitor by Brown, Bellows & Columbia at Chase Field, a naval air base in Bee County, Texas. No autopsy was performed but it is indicated that Gorman’s death was caused by myocardial failure. It also appears…