Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Kelly

POWER, Justice.

Plaintiff was employed by Mrs. Baird’s Bakery, a corporation, and at the time of her alleged injury the bakery carried its compensation insurance with appellant Texas Employers’ Insurance Association,. It was alleged and proven that appellee was carrying a number of pasteboard cartons to be used for cake boxes across a freshly oiled floor when she slipped and fell in a sitting position, by reason of which she was injured in the pelvic region, and it was shown that the jolt dislocated her uterus, resulting in excessive menstruation.

The case was submitted to a jury upon special…